The Challenge
Sonatype's ten-year retrospective shows supply-chain attacks doubling again in 2024. Conventional Software Composition Analysis tools generate mountains of unreachable CVE alerts, overwhelming security teams and delaying critical upgrades.
Common Pain Points & How ZeroPath Solves Them
| Pain Point | How ZeroPath Solves It |
|---|---|
| Alert overload Thousands of CVEs, most never executed | Reachability analysis Only flags libraries actually invoked by your code |
| Unmaintained dependencies 74% of projects use abandoned packages | End-of-life detection Identifies packages without active maintainers |
| License compliance risk Manual tracking of OSS licenses | Built-in compliance Automated license scanning with CycloneDX SBOMs |
| Cross-tool blind spots Secrets in dependencies go undetected | Unified analysis Correlates secrets, IaC misconfigs, and vulnerable deps |
How it Works
1. Discover
Map your entire dependency tree including transitive dependencies
2. Analyze
Call-graph analysis identifies which code paths are actually reachable
3. Prioritize
Focus on what's reachable in your execution paths, then rank by CISA KEV active-exploitation and FIRST EPSS likelihood. Reachable + known-exploited is your top priority. Not-reachable, low-EPSS, no-KEV can wait.
4. Remediate
AI-suggested upgrades that won't break your application
Key Capabilities
Reachability-First Analysis
- Call-graph walking to trace actual code execution
- 70% alert reduction compared to traditional SCA
- Function-level precision for vulnerability assessment
- Cross-language support for polyglot applications
Supply Chain Intelligence
- End-of-life detection for abandoned packages
- Maintainer analysis to assess project health
- Update velocity tracking for security responsiveness
- Fork detection to identify unofficial versions
- AI Inventory records the AI in your code (17 component kinds spanning LLM SDKs, agent frameworks, MCP servers, and model files) on the scans you already run
Compliance & Governance
- License compatibility checking across dependencies
- CycloneDX SBOM generation with one click
- Export to VEX for vulnerability exchange
- Reachability-aware CycloneDX VEX with each component's analysis state derived from whether your code reaches the vulnerable symbol
- AI-BOM a standards-format CycloneDX AI-BOM alongside your SBOM. The AI-native bill of materials for the models, datasets, and AI SDKs your software ships
- Policy enforcement for approved package lists
Unified Risk View
- Secrets in dependencies detection and correlation
- IaC misconfigurations that amplify supply chain risk
- Reachability tracing from a vulnerable dependency to the call sites your code actually reaches, narrowing the list to what's exploitable in your execution paths
- Business impact scoring based on data sensitivity
