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A New CVSS-Based Tool to Mitigate the Effects of Software Vulnerabilities

2012· article· en· W2512372125 on OpenAlex
Assad Ali, Pavol Zavarsky, Dale Lindskog, Ron Ruhl

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal for Information Security Research · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicInformation and Cyber Security
Canadian institutionsConcordia University of Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceSecure codingSoftwareRisk analysis (engineering)Software engineeringComputer securitySoftware security assuranceBusinessOperating systemInformation security

Abstract

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The organizations are challenged by the number of vulnerabilities in the software and hardware platforms. Successful execution of the operations need to have vulnerabilities clean environment. The U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) uses Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to score each vulnerability found and provides the detailed description of those security vulnerabilities. The score provided by the NVD is based on the intrinsic and the fundamental characteristics of a vulnerability. This score can further be refined by the organizations to calculate the bearing of the vulnerability on their environment. The purpose of CVSS is to provide a standard way to measure severity of vulnerabilities therefore CVSS version 2.0 calculator contributes less in proposing the solutions to mitigate the effects of vulnerability on a user environment. The growing number of vulnerabilities requires to have more than a simple CVSS calculator that can also propose the remediation actions for the organizations. This research paper reports on the functionality of previously developed software application to enhance the functionalities of standard CVSS version 2.0 calculator. The developed software application is capable of proposing the optimum remedial actions against vulnerabilities for organizations, requiring minimal time and efforts. This software application will be freely available for use.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.933
Threshold uncertainty score0.761

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.005
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.337 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it