cybersecurity · beginner · ~15 min · safe pentest lab

Severity rank

Order severities for sorting a report.

Challenge

Implement int severity_rank(const char *sev) returning 4/3/2/1/0 for "Critical"/"High"/"Medium"/"Low"/"Info", or -1 for anything else.

Starter code

#include <string.h>

int severity_rank(const char *sev) {
    /* TODO */
    return -1;
}

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