Company
Date Published
Author
Jim Armstrong
Word count
945
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Snyk has introduced a new feature called "relative importance" that helps prioritize and fix container vulnerabilities by assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in Linux operating system packages and their dependencies. This feature uses data from distro maintainers and security researchers to provide a more accurate severity rating than traditional NVD ratings, which can vary depending on how each distro builds and maintains its releases. The relative importance data is automatically used in Snyk's vulnerability assessment and is available in both the UI and CLI. The feature is part of Snyk's efforts to make container security more accessible and user-friendly for developers, who are often not experts in operating system maintenance.