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Glossary: Threats, Threat Actors and Motivations

CVSS metric groups

Also written: Base, Threat, Environmental, Supplemental

In CVSS 4.0, the four groups of metrics: Base (the flaw itself), Threat (whether attackers use it now), Environmental (your own setting) and Supplemental (extra facts that don't change the score).

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

CVSSCVSS-B / CVSS-BT / CVSS-BE / CVSS-BTEExploit Maturity (E)