NotebookLM Vulnerability Standards

Overview

In this chapter, we'll feed the main vulnerability standards to NotebookLM.

Data Sources

These files are available in docs/NotebookLM/InputDocs for convenience.

Content	Page with link to content	Direct Link
Risk Based Prioritization Guide	https://riskbasedprioritization.github.io/print_page/	Print - Save to PDF
CVSS 3.1 User Guide	https://www.first.org/cvss/v3.1/user-guide	https://www.first.org/cvss/v3-1/cvss-v31-user-guide_r1.pdf
CVSS 3.1 Specification	https://www.first.org/cvss/v3.1/specification-document	https://www.first.org/cvss/v3-1/cvss-v31-specification_r1.pdf
CVSS 4.0 User Guide	https://www.first.org/cvss/v4.0/user-guide	https://www.first.org/cvss/v4-0/cvss-v40-user-guide.pdf
CVSS 4.0 Specification Document	https://www.first.org/cvss/v4.0/specification-document	https://www.first.org/cvss/v4-0/cvss-v40-specification.pdf
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) FAQ	https://www.first.org/epss/faq	https://www.first.org/epss/faq
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) latest published paper	https://www.first.org/epss/model	https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.14172
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) latest published paper	https://github.com/CERTCC/SSVC/tree/main/pdfs	https://github.com/CERTCC/SSVC/blob/main/pdfs/ssvc_2_1_draft.pdf
CISA KEV	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities	copy and paste text to a file cisakev.txt because NotebookLM cannot pull content directly from the page

Data Sources

The vulnerability standards PDFs are available in https://github.com/CyberSecAI/CyberSecAI.github.io/tree/main/data/NotebookLM_VulnerabilityStandards

The initial screen after the documents are loaded.
CISA KEV was then loaded as a text file.

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write an introductory article in less than 250 words that gives an overview of all these sources and how they fit together

Each circled-number is a clickable link to the reference text in the original sources.

I want to rank vulnerabilities by Exploitation

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I am currently using CVSS to rank vulnerabilities. I also want to rank based on exploitation as I heard only a small percentage of CVEs are actually exploited. What standard should I use. How should I use them. Provide an answer with rationale and examples.

Explain risk like I'm a 5 year old

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I want to prioritize vulnerabilities by risk. But I don't understand risk and the components or factors of risk. Can you explain that to me like I'm a 5 year old. Then explain how I can use that for my risk based prioritization approach. Please provide a rationale

CVSS Base Parameters for CVSS v3 and v4

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what parameters contribute to the CVSS base parameter score? How do these parameters differ in CVSS 3 versus CVSS 4

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Failure

Hallucination Remediation Level (RL) is NOT part of the Exploitability Metrics

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Remediation Level (RL): New metric considering how available and effective remediation methods are (Not Defined, Official Fix, Temporary Fix, Workaround, Unavailable).

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Takeaways

Takeaways

1. NotebookLM does a good job assimilating these verbose standards and was competently able to answer specific factual questions, and broader opinionated questions.
2. Lots of references to the source material were provided in the answers which help understand and validate the answers.