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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

It's "overblown" because of these dumb CVSS scores that get attached to vulnerabilities as if they had any meaning at all (they do not). By itself, it's just a marginally interesting semi-remote vuln, effectively a privesc within a K8s deployment.

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Score 9.8 ought to mean, "this is almost the worst conceivable vulnerability".

I certainly stopped what I was doing to go check. This is a badly overblown emergency which degrades everyone’s ability to properly respond to actual emergencies.

Yeah, and there have been a lot of these lately. The more nothing-burger 9.8+ severity vulnerabilities there are, the less space there is for communicating "this is actually a severe vulnerability and you need to pay attention".

Heartbleed was a 7.5. The entire security community is constantly shouting "RED ALERT, THIS IS A MUCH MUCH WORSE VULNERABILITY THAN HEARTBLEED" and they're all just non-issues.

That's a CVSS issue. Heartbleed only affected Confidentiality, and CVSS rates scores on a triad of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. RCE affects all three.

That's exactly what I'm complaining about, yes. Nothing burgers get 9.8, while earth shattering vulnerabilities get 7.5 using the scoring system that the security community uses to describe "severity".

Heartbleed was a much more significant issue than this ingress-nginx thing.

I agree with you, which is why I'm redirecting the blame to the CVSS standard, which does not agree with you.

This is literally true, it is the worst conceivable vulnerability, total access to your k8s cluster by hitting a URL, how about a 10 instead of 9.8, these comments are wild.

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