vulnerability management
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Deciding What to Patch First — CVSS, EPSS and KEV, and What Each Is For
CVSS is severity, EPSS is probability of exploitation, KEV is confirmed exploitation. They are not substitutes. Our own data across all 1,695 KEV entries: 64% score below CVSS 9 and 24% sit below EPSS 0.1 — so both 'patch the high scores' and 'ignore the low EPSS' fail in practice. Order by KEV, then EPSS, then CVSS, and set the deadline from your own exposure.
osv-scanner in Practice — pnpm, Ignoring CVEs, Offline Mode, and the Errors You Hit
Only the second-day questions, answered against the official docs. pnpm-lock.yaml is supported; ignores live in osv-scanner.toml under IgnoredVulns and can carry an expiry; offline mode is three flags with three different jobs. This site's view: a scanner reports known vulnerabilities, and says nothing about a version you pinned yourself going stale — that needs a separate mechanism.