FIRST Announces Call for Subjects for version 3 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Common Vulnerability Scoring System v3 SIG call for Subjects

Applications for participation in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System - Special Interest Group for the development of its next revision, Version 3, opened on March 19, 2012.

For more information about participating directly in the development of the standard, please see the FIRST press release regarding the Call for Participation here: first-press-release-20120322.pdf

Your participation is invaluable for the development of version 3. Today we are asking for your suggestions on topics and subjects for consideration that will make this a functionally robust standard as we work toward increasing value and supporting further adoption.

We would appreciate your inputs in focusing the efforts required to appropriately scope the work for version 3 developments. Please provide your thoughts on the goals you envision for this version to increase its effectiveness as an accurate and acceptable industry-wide standard for representing the severity of vulnerabilities.

The Call for Subjects period for CVSS version 3 SIG begins April 6 and will end June 16.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please email them with a subject of "v3 Subjects" to: seth@first.org