Abstract
Proper and timely vulnerability mitigation is essential to ensure network security. Vulnerability categorisation plays a major role in this regard by increasing objectivity of security assessment process. Further, it suggests doing assessment of severity level of vulnerability categories to prioritise them relatively. That in turn leads in developing better risk mitigation strategies by addressing multiple vulnerabilities of same genre simultaneously. In this direction, this paper proposes an algorithm to evaluate severity index of vulnerability categories focusing on vulnerability characteristics and relative distribution of vulnerability population. Proposed algorithm applied on 22846 vulnerabilities listed by NVD which are categorised under 23 categories and further severity index for all the 23 categories were calculated.
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