For years, vulnerability management has revolved around a familiar ritual: scan, score, sort, patch. At the center of that ritual sat CVSS, a single numerical expression of danger that promised clarity in a chaotic threat landscape. Over time, that promise hardened into dependency. CVSS scores became policy triggers, SLA benchmarks, and executive talking points. Yet as systems grew more interconnected and attacks more adaptive, the gap between what CVSS measured and what defe
