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While individual circumstances matter a lot for impact to a single organization, for estimating the global "blast impact" of a vulnerability, we'd expect that a
by PeterisP 2y ago
While individual circumstances matter a lot for impact to a single organization, for estimating the global "blast impact" of a vulnerability, we'd expect that all of that would somewhat average out between all the thousands or millions of different systems and organizations running that tool, and a library with 100 times more users can be expected (all things being equal) to have 100-ish times more situations where it's used in a publicly reachable way - but the difference in average expected impact of having a million systems with a 2.5 CVSS vulnerability (likely causing zero incidents) and a million systems with a 10.0 CVSS vulnerability (likely wormable RCE) isn't 4 times, not even close to that.