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CVSS Calculator V1.0

Thursday 12 April 2007

CVSS stands for Common vulnerability Scoring System. It helps to score vulnerabilities severity and determine urgency of response and patch management. For more advanced information about CVSS Scoring metrics, please refer to http://www.first.org/CVSS/.

French Security Firm Hapsis has developed utility to calculate CVSS scores. This software comes with two plugins CVE database and results viewer.

CVEDatabase Search Plugin : is a free plugin used to maintain CVE vulnerability database up-to-date. You can use the update feature to download latest CVE file. The file is grabbed from this URL http://cve.mitre.org/cve/downloads/allitems.csv

CVSSResults Viewer Plugin : CVSS ResultsViewer is a free plugin used to manage previously scored vulnerabilities. You can sort results by clicking on any row. This will help you to classify scores from high to low. Critical vulnerabilities are those with the higher scores.

This tool is approved by first.org


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