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title: "Edit Vulnerability Finding Severity"
slug: "edit-vulnerability-finding-severity"
updated: 2025-09-10T21:13:43Z
published: 2025-09-10T21:13:43Z
canonical: "help.nucleussec.com/edit-vulnerability-finding-severity"
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# Edit Vulnerability Finding Severity

## Overview

Vulnerability scanners don't have the whole picture, and Nucleus gives you the ability to change the severity of findings manually to suit your environment, in order to aid in tracking and managing vulnerabilities. If you want to change the severity of a finding within Nucleus, you can do so in the following way:

## Edit severity on a finding

1. From within a Nucleus project, navigate to the **Global Dashboard > Select a project > Vulnerabilities > Active**.
2. Use the search or filters to locate the specific finding you want to update and **Select the checkbox** for the finding.

![Screenshot 2025-06-27 at 3.18.05 PM.png](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-06-27%20at%203.18.05%E2%80%AFPM.png)

1. **Click the finding** to open the **Vulnerability Details** page.

![Screenshot 2025-06-27 at 3.19.14 PM.png](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-06-27%20at%203.19.14%E2%80%AFPM.png)

1. **Click the vulnerability** you want to change and select the **Instances tab**. To change the finding severity of one or more findings, select the checkbox for each finding you want to change.

![Screenshot 2025-06-27 at 3.31.09 PM.png](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-06-27%20at%203.31.09%E2%80%AFPM.png)

1. Click the **Adjust Severity** button at the top of the columns and the **Adjust Finding Severity** pop-up modal appears. The finding name appears at the top of the pop-up modal.

![Screenshot 2025-06-27 at 3.45.33 PM.png](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-06-27%20at%203.45.33%E2%80%AFPM.png)

1. Select the correct **New Severity** level from the drop-down, and optionally enter a **Reasoning** comment about why the severity is being changed

The finding's severity has now been changed! As with [status](/v1/docs/change-the-status-of-a-finding) and other finding attributes, severity will persist even when new scan data pertaining to that finding has been uploaded.

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The same process can be repeated for findings you want to change back to their original severity.

If you have any questions, please contact us through the [support center](https://nucleussec.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3).