Understanding the CVSS
CVSS 3.1 is a non-vendor-specific system widely accepted by the cybersecurity community that helps professionals and researchers to determine the severity of a vulnerability. Imagine that a security engineer performs a vulnerability assessment on an organization's IT infrastructure and the result provides a number of security flaws found within many systems. What if the security engineer chooses to remediate and fix random vulnerabilities? This means that vulnerabilities that may impact critical services, and devices may not gain the attention of security professionals while they are resolving less important security flaws.
Important note
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) maintains the CVSS 3.1 calculator on their website at https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1.
A security professional can input various factors into the CVSS 3.1 calculator to get a score ranging from 0 to 10, where 10 is critical and should be given...
