%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Evaluating CVSS Base Score Using Vulnerability Rewards Programs
%+ Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU)
%A Younis, Awad
%A Malaiya, Yashwant, K.
%A Ray, Indrajit
%Z Part 2: Human Aspects of Security
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 31st IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC)
%C Ghent, Belgium
%Y Jaap-Henk Hoepman
%Y Stefan Katzenbeisser
%3 ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection
%V AICT-471
%P 62-75
%8 2016-05-30
%D 2016
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-33630-5_5
%K CVSS Base score
%K Vulnerability reward program
%K Bug bounty programs
%K Software vulnerability severity
%K Vulnerability exploitation
%K Software defensive techniques
%K Exploit mitigation techniques
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X CVSS Base Score and the underlying metrics have been widely used. Recently there have been attempts to validate them. Some of the researchers have questioned the CVSS metrics based on a lack of correlation with the reported exploits and attacks. In this research, we use the independent scales used by the vulnerability reward programs (VRPs) to see if they correlate with the CVSS Base Score. We examine 1559 vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. The results show that there is a significant correlation between the VRPs severity ratings and CVSS scores, when three level rankings are used. For both approaches, the sets of vulnerabilities identified as Critical or High severity vulnerabilities include a large number of shared vulnerabilities, again suggesting mutual conformation. The results suggest that the CVSS Base Score may be a useful metric for prioritizing vulnerabilities, and the notable lack of exploits for high severity vulnerabilities may be the result of prioritized fixing of vulnerabilities.
%G English
%Z TC 11
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01369542/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01369542/file/421518_1_En_5_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01369542
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01369542
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