Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk
The Hacker News, Friday, September 11th, 2026
CVSS ratings ignore segmentation and identity controls, so critical findings are often not your reachable ones.
Security teams should prioritize vulnerabilities that create an actual path to compromise in their environment rather than working down a list ordered by severity rating.
CVSS scores are computed without knowledge of your segmentation, identity controls or compensating measures, so a critical-rated flaw on an isolated system may present less real risk than a medium-rated one on a system that reaches domain credentials.
The article sets out how to build attack path analysis into the triage process, which changes the remediation queue substantially in most organizations.