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Episode 219 - Chat with Larry Cashdollar

Josh and Kurt have a chat with Larry Cashdollar. The three of us go way back. Larry has done some amazing things and he tells us all about it! https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_219_Chat_with_Larry_Cashdollar.mp3 Show Notes Akamai Larry’s website Larry’s First CVE

October 12, 2020
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2020 CWE Top 25 I mean 10 or maybe 4.5

A few days ago I ran across this report from MITRE. It’s titled “2020 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses”. I found the report lacking the sort of details I was hoping for, so I’m going rogue and adding those details myself because it’s a topic I care about and I like seeing conclusions. Think of this as a sort of modern graffiti. Firstly, all of my data and graphs come from the NVD CVE json data. You can find my project to put this data into Elasticsearch then doing interesting things with it on GitHub here. All graphs are screenshots from Kibana. ...

August 24, 2020
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Episode 201 - We broke CVSSv3, now how do we fix it?

Josh and Kurt talk about CVSSv3 and how it’s broken. We started with a blog post to explain why the NVD CVSS scores are so wrong, and we ended up researching CVSSv3 and found out it’s far more broken than any of us expected in ways we didn’t expect. NVD isn’t broken, CVSSv3 is. How did we get here? Are there any options that work today? Where should we go next? ...

June 15, 2020