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Severity Scores are More Subjective Than You Think

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Hackerspot Team
Apr 17, 2026
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In the Vulnerability Management processes, we treat the CVSS scores as reliable information. We build automated ticketing pipelines around it, we set SLAs based on its decimals, and we report “Criticals” to leadership with absolute confidence. But what if the math we rely on is built on a foundation of human inconsistency?

An empirical study published sh…

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