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curl project is giving up on CVSS scores (daniel.haxx.se)

submitted 1 day ago by zapzap@lemmings.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Daniel Stenberg says the scores are "security misinformation".

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"security misinformation"

Or actually significant and consistent values that also happen to make you look bad today so they must suck and be ditched.

Did I get that right? SOUNDS right...

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, the last few high scoring CVEs curl got were really niche buffer overflows or potential security issues.
He's been very vocal about this. Yeah it's a bug, and usually an easy fix, but they scored like 8 or 9 on CVSS. Which is disproportionate compared to a lot of other 8s or 9s.
I can understand the frustration there.