CVSS(1p)

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💖 CVSS(1p) — the CVSS command line interface, bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick — this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and yes the whole vibe is "vulnerability scoring but make it cute." Let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

cvss — CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) command line interface

like... it's literally what it says. you hand it a CVSS vector string, it hands you numbers back. iconic behavior fr fr 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cvss [OPTIONS]...STRING
cvss [--help|--man|-v]

here's your options menu, no skips, all of them ⬇️

  • --help — quick lil help message, the snack-size version
  • --man — the FULL documentation, the whole meal 🍓
  • -v — prints the version
  • --score — the base score
  • --severity — the base severity
  • --base-score — base score again, its own flag, yes ma'am ✨
  • --base-severity — base severity again
  • --temporal-score — temporal score
  • --temporal-severity — temporal severity
  • --environmental-score — environmental score
  • --environmental-severity — environmental severity
  • --exploitability-score — exploitability score
  • --impact-score — impact score
  • --modified-impact-score — modified impact score
  • -0, --null — returns a NULL char instead of a new line (chaotic but valid 💀)
  • --format=FORMAT — picks the output format
  • --json — JSON output format (which is the same as --format=json)
  • --xml — XML output format (same energy as --format=xml)

🦋 Examples

Decode the provided CVSS vector string:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --json | jq

Display the base score:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --base-score

Display the base severity:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --base-severity

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

"cvss" CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) command line interface

that's it, that's the description. short, sweet, main character energy. 😌

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Decode the provided CVSS vector string and return JSON, then send the STDOUT to jq:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --json | jq

Display the base score:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --base-score

Display the base severity:

cvss CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H --base-severity

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Giuseppe Di Terlizzi <https://metacpan.org/author/gdt>

the legend themselves 💜

Copyright © 2023-2026 Giuseppe Di Terlizzi <https://metacpan.org/author/gdt>

You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms that Perl is distributed under.

that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💖 — and for the record, this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-05, living its CVSS(1p) truth. slay. ✨🌸

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