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Authors: Doudou Fall and Youki Kadobayashi

Affiliation: Laboratory for Cyber Resilience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara and Japan

Keyword(s): CVSS Scores, Well-known Vulnerabilities.

Abstract: Meltdown & Spectre came as natural disasters to the IT world with several doomsday scenarios being professed. Yet, when we turn to the de facto standard body for assessing the severity of a security vulnerability, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), we surprisingly notice that Meltdown & Spectre do not command the highest scores. We witness a similar situation for other rock star vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that have received a lot of media attention) such as Heartbleed and KRACKs. In this manuscript, we investigate why the CVSS ‘fails’ at capturing the intrinsic characteristics of rock star vulnerabilities. We dissect the different elements of the CVSS (v2 and v3) to prove that there is nothing within it that can indicate why a particular vulnerability is a rock star. Further, we uncover a pattern that shows that, despite all the beautifully elaborated formulas, magic numbers and catch phrases of the CVSS, there is still a heavy presence human emotion into the scori ng as rock star vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild before being discovered tend to have a higher score than those that were discovered and responsibly disclosed by security researchers. We believe that this is the principal reason of the discrepancy between the scoring and the level of media attention as the majority of 'modern' high level vulnerabilities are introduced by security researchers. (More)

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Paper citation in several formats:
Fall, D. and Kadobayashi, Y. (2019). The Common Vulnerability Scoring System vs. Rock Star Vulnerabilities: Why the Discrepancy?. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP; ISBN 978-989-758-359-9; ISSN 2184-4356, SciTePress, pages 405-411. DOI: 10.5220/0007387704050411

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JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP
TI - The Common Vulnerability Scoring System vs. Rock Star Vulnerabilities: Why the Discrepancy?
SN - 978-989-758-359-9
IS - 2184-4356
AU - Fall, D.
AU - Kadobayashi, Y.
PY - 2019
SP - 405
EP - 411
DO - 10.5220/0007387704050411
PB - SciTePress