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A revised CVSS-based system to improve the dispersion of vulnerability risk scores

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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB0800700), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61572460, 61272481), Open Project Program of State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Grant No. 2017-ZD-01), National Information Security Special Projects of National Development and Reform Commission of China (Grant No. (2012)1424), and Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (111 Project) (Grant No. B16037).

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Wu, C., Wen, T. & Zhang, Y. A revised CVSS-based system to improve the dispersion of vulnerability risk scores. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 39102 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9445-4

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