Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

Vulnerability taxonomy

With the increase in the available number of technologies, over the past few years, there have been various attempts to introduce the best taxonomy that could categorize all the common sets of vulnerabilities. However, no single taxonomy has been produced to represent all the common coding mistakes that may affect the system's security. This is owing to the fact that a single vulnerability might fall into more than one category or class. Additionally, every system platform has its own base for connectivity, complexity, and extensibility to interact with its environment. Thus, the taxonomy standards that are presented in the following table will help you identify most of the security glitches, whenever possible. Note that ...