Refer to the exhibit. Based on the detected vulnerabilities, what is the next recommended mitigation step?

Evaluating service disruption before prioritizing is a secondary consideration - CVSS scores already factor in exploitability and impact, providing a ready-made prioritization framework that should be applied directly.

Root cause analysis is a post-incident or post-remediation activity and is not the immediate mitigation step when vulnerabilities have been detected and need to be addressed.

CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scores provide a standardized numeric severity rating that allows security teams to prioritize remediation effectively. Addressing vulnerabilities in descending CVSS score order ensures the most critical and exploitable vulnerabilities are patched first, reducing overall organizational risk in a structured manner. This is the industry-standard approach endorsed by NIST and FIRST for vulnerability management programs.

Temporarily shutting down services causes unnecessary business disruption and is not the recommended standard approach for patch deployment prioritization when CVSS scoring already guides sequencing.