Security · 1h ago
Vulnerability scanning is broken without call graph data
Current vulnerability scanners report all CVEs equally, but most are unreachable from application code. A study found fewer than 9.5% of open-source CVEs are actually exploitable. Without a call graph mapping code paths, teams waste effort patching irrelevant vulnerabilities.
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The article correctly identifies a fundamental flaw in vulnerability management, but the solution—building accurate call graphs—remains a hard engineering problem that most teams can't solve today.
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