diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 6e977a7..bff34fd 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Release History
 ===============
 
+0.7.1 (2022-12-19)
+-------------------
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Fixed the location of `baseSeverity`. The `baseSeverity` attribute had its location changed and caused lookups with a CVSS version 2 score to fail. 
+
 0.7.0 (2022-10-31)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/nvdlib/classes.py b/nvdlib/classes.py
index 5ab08f1..7057366 100644
--- a/nvdlib/classes.py
+++ b/nvdlib/classes.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def getvars(self):
         if hasattr(self.metrics, 'cvssMetricV2'):
             self.v2score = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].cvssData.baseScore
             self.v2vector = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].cvssData.vectorString
-            self.v2severity = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].cvssData.baseSeverity
+            self.v2severity = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].baseSeverity
             self.v2exploitability = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].exploitabilityScore
             self.v2impactScore = self.metrics.cvssMetricV2[0].impactScore
         
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9268ced..7893c0d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 setup(
     name='nvdlib',
     packages=find_packages(include=['nvdlib']),
-    version='0.7.0',
+    version='0.7.1',
     install_requires = ['requests'],
     extras_require={
         "dev": [