CVE Impact Assessment

CVE Impact Assessment

CVE impact assessments are critical to the cybersecurity strategy, by determining risk exposure. By understanding the severity and potential consequences of vulnerabilities, organizations can prioritize their response, reducing the likelihood of exploitation and minimizing operational disruption.
It involves several steps:

1. Vulnerability Identification
   Regular check the CVE database to identify vulnerabilities that may affect your systems
2. Severity Analysis
   Once a vulnerability is identified you have to see how severe it is. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is used to evaluate the severity of each vulnerability. CVSS scores range from 0.0 to 10.0, with higher scores indicating greater severity. CVSS considers multiple factors, including:
   • Attack Vector: The environment through which the vulnerability can be exploited (e.g., network, physical, local).
   • Attack Complexity: The level of difficulty an attacker must overcome to exploit the vulnerability.
   • Impact Metrics: The potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
   Mr.Benny automatically checks CVE database and performs the severity analysis.
3. Asset Inventory Mapping:
   In order to assess real security threats based on the vulnerabilities identified is mandatory to keep an up-to-date inventory of IT assets no matter the location of those (hybrid work leads frequently to ignore assets that impact an organization. Mr.Benny provides a comprehensive and visual IT assets management solution organized by room, network or other criteria.
4. Risk Assessment
   By analyzing the criticality of affected assets, data sensitivity, and existing security measures, you can compute the overall risk posed by vulnerabilities or have Mr.Benny do it for you and save your time for more important activities
5. Patch Management
   Ensure timely application of security patches to address patchable vulnerabilities. Mr.Benny as your smart ITAM assistant will provide you not only with prioritization of those security patches, but also with advices how to do it.
6. Employee Training
   Educate staff on cybersecurity to reduce exploitation through human error or miscommunication.

The 3 main reasons why organizations have challenges with the CVE system are:

1. High Volume of CVEs
   With thousands of new CVEs added annually, security teams may struggle to assess and prioritize each vulnerability effectively.
2. Dynamic Threat Landscape
   Threats evolve quickly, and the severity of a vulnerability can change based on new exploits or attack methods.
3. Resource Limitations
   Small and medium-sized businesses, in particular, may lack the personnel or technology to perform comprehensive assessments.

Prepare for the future

ITSM Software such as Mr.Benny also includes AI and Machine Learning Integration, allowing for proactive issue resolution and improved decision-making regarding vulnerabilities. Automation of tasks and global risk determination will be needed to reduce manual workloads as well.
Experts agree.

Ben Edwards, Principal Research Scientist at Bitsight (source)

"With 95% certainty, there will be between 48,675 and 58,956 new CVEs published in 2025, bringing the total to well over 300,000. Prioritization will be key in vulnerability management, emphasizing the importance of threat intelligence."

Peter Barnett, Cybersecurity Analyst at Action1 (source)

"Over 38,000 vulnerabilities were reported in 2024—a sharp increase from previous years. This surge is not just a statistic but a signal: cybercriminals are becoming faster, smarter, and more determined."

Mr.Benny helps with CVE management applied to your IT assets, so you can enhance your security posture, and protect critical assets. We have a free plan available to test, what are you waiting for?