• folkrav@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    It’s the last sentence of the article - 9.8/10. In this case it’s probably called critical because of the potential consequences of the exploit being a full machine takeover, not the likeliness of the exploit being used.

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      2 years ago

      It means that CVSS is calculated wrong. It can’t be so big because default configuration is not affected and attacker requires admin access to change it.