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CVSS Environmental Metrics

CVSS metrics that adjust a score for a specific organization's environment and security requirements.

Definition

Environmental metrics include modified base metrics and confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements, letting organizations raise or lower severity based on asset importance and compensating controls. In CVSS v4.0, the Threat metric group (Exploit Maturity) replaced v3.x Temporal metrics.

Example

Lowering a score because the vulnerable service is only reachable from an isolated management network.

Exam tip

Environmental metrics are set by the consumer, not the vendor.

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