It was obvious already before that NVD really does not try very hard to actually understand or figure out the problem they grade. In this case it is quite impossible for me to understand how they could come up with this severity level. It’s like they saw “integer overflow” and figure that wow, yeah that is the most horrible flaw we can imagine, but clearly nobody at NVD engaged their brains nor looked at the “vulnerable” code or the patch that fixed the bug. Anyone that looks can see that this is not a security problem.

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I've enjoyed reading the article and, after going down the rabbit whole of CVEs, NVD and the like, I now wholeheartedly support Daniel's stance. Current CVE management is stupid and broken.