Security researchers find deep flaws in CVSS vulnerability scoring system

CVSS 4.0 also has shortcomings, researchers say

The upcoming CVSS 4.0 framework introduces expanded impact metrics, refined temporal metrics, and new supplemental metrics to improve assessment accuracy. However, issues including a lack of consideration of privacy concerns and advanced persistent threat (APT) associations remain, according to the JPMorganChase security researchers.

JPMorganChase has put together a framework to factor in the lack of APT and exploitability weighting and the issue of dependencies. The financial services giant has developed a conceptual design it is encouraging other members of the security community to review and participate in further refining.

In response to a question from CSO, Syed Islam, a principal security architect at JPMorganChase, acknowledged that only organizations that had achieved a degree of security maturity — for example by having an inventory of technologies and applications upon which their business relies — would benefit substantially from applying its vulnerability assessment methodology.

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