CVSS 2.0 2007 CVSS 3.0 2015 CVSS 3.1 2019 CVSS 4.0 2023 Introduced a common measurement system for vulnerability severity Further refinements included the Scope metric. Improved existing standards Introduced a common measurement system for vulnerability severity Gained widespread adoption, integrated into PCI-DSS.
over the internet (Remotely Exploitable) Adjacent (A) Required to be connected to a company's VPN for exploiting an issue Local (L) User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability Physical (P) Requires the attacker to physically touch or manipulate the vulnerable component Attack Vector (AV)
to attack, No access required or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack. (Self signup available) Low (L) Attacker requires low privileges (Admin invites attacker to their org having Low permissions) High (H) Attacker requires High privileges (Admin invites attacker to their org having High permissions) Privileges Required (PR)
exploited without interaction from any user (IDOR, BAC) Required (R) Requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited (XSS, Open Redirect) User Interaction (UI)
impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority (IDOR, BAC, Open Redirect, Subdomain Takeover ) Changed (C) The vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities. (Stored XSS, Reflected XSS) Scope (S)
of confidentiality (Information disclosure, IDOR fetches PII details) Low (L) There is some loss of confidentiality (First name, Last name, Email) None (N) There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component. Confidentiality (C)
of integrity (Able to modify all files and details) Low (L) Amount of modification is limited (Able to change First Name, Gender, favourite list) None (N) There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component. Integrity (I)
of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component Low (L) Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability None (N) There is no impact to availability within the impacted component. Availability (A)
that would allow an attacker to delete all files in the web server’s root directory. How would you rate the Availability metric for this vulnerability on the CVSS calculator? High? Low? None?