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CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs (wetdry.world)
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CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

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[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Should the NVD be deeply involved in all of them just to provide the most accurate security score? That’s an impossible ask.

This is a false dilemma. If the task is truly impossible, that's not a valid excuse to try anyway and fail repeatedly, especially if doing so causes negative externalities. Numbered scores with decimal precision are not necessary to the core functionality of a CVE database and there are plenty of alternative solutions which would minimize harm and scale more economically.