Assess and prioritize most exploitable vulnerabilities

In the context of vulnerability assessment, Helm provides a practical framework for understanding and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, and potential threats. This article outlines how Helm utilizes CVSS v2 and v3 scores, along with EPSS scores and threat sources, including indicating if vulnerabilities are on the CISA KEV list, whether they are in the Exploit Database (exploit-db.com) or have a Metasploit toolkit available to make attacks easier, and whether they meet the criteria of the top 25 CWEs (Common Weakness Enumerations).

Automatic enrichment of CVE vulnerabilities with CPEs

Our advanced Large Language Model (LLM) now enriches vulnerability data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Unfortunately, the NVD has not kept pace with CPE and other data enrichment for the past six months, leaving those of us in the cybersecurity space in a bit of quandary.

To remedy this issue, our LLM is now identifying vulnerabilities impacting your products and automatically enriching the information retrieved from the NVD with CPE data, aiding in more precise identification of vulnerabilities. This provides you with a more complete view of your overall risk, and ensures that you're focusing your time and effort on the most exploitable vulnerabilities that are affecting your product. Vulnerabilities that came from the NVD, and through our CPE enrichment, were identified as impacting your products will have an AI badge in the new Source column on the Vulnerabilities page.

Rescoring vulnerabilities

You can adjust all vulnerability scores across an entire product version based on your device's environment and usage, or choose individual vulnerabilities to rescore. Customize vulnerability scores based on your device's unique environment and usage, recalibrating severity, exploitability, and threat information for a tailored assessment that minimizes false positives while pinpointing your more exploitable and critical vulnerabilities, thereby strengthening your cybersecurity defenses.

Prioritize what vulnerabilities to focus on

You can easily stay on top of new and updated vulnerabilities:

• Get email notifications of new vulnerabilities impacting your software supply chain.

• Identify those with available exploits or malware kits.

• Consider suggested Windows KB updates (Windows operating systems only).

• Stay updated with information from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

To ensure you're focusing on the most exploitable vulnerabilities:

• Rescore all vulnerabilities across a product version

• Rescore individual vulnerabilities

Filter on most impactful vulnerabilities

Once you've rescored your vulnerabilities, filter down on those that have a combination of high CVSS scores with high exploitability (EPSS) scores and that have exploits or threats.

Bulk remediate vulnerabilities

Bulk remediate vulnerabilities within a product, across products, or target a particular component's vulnerabilities with the click of a button, enabling you to speed triage and ensure remediation consistency of particular vulnerabilities across your product portfolio.

Check for updates to a vulnerability

If you’ve previously assessed a vulnerability, you can turn on the Date updated column to see whether there have been any updates.

Check for new vulnerabilities

If you've turned on vulnerability email notifications, Helm will automatically send you emails whenever there is a new vulnerability.