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Reachability Analysis, Explained
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Your dependency scanner says you have 4,000 vulnerabilities. How many actually matter? Usually a small fraction, because most vulnerable code is present in your dependency tree but never called by your application.
Reachability analysis answers the question: does my app actually invoke the vulnerable code path? If it doesn't, the risk is far lower, present, but not exploitable here.