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#4 BleepingComputer general April 19, 2026 at 14:17 UTC

NIST to stop rating non-priority flaws due to volume increase

By Bill Toulas

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NIST announced it will stop assigning CVSS severity scores to lower-priority vulnerabilities due to overwhelming submission volumes that exceed their capacity for analysis. This policy change will impact how organizations prioritize patching for non-critical vulnerabilities, potentially leaving some flaws without standardized severity ratings that security teams rely on for risk assessment.

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