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by mk89 5 days ago
If the code is unreachable is obviously not a threat, Mythos or not. Can you do this analysis for all your 200+ services, libs etc?

This is the main issue about compliance nowadays. In a fedramp scenario you would very likely have to prove that it's unreachable, and you might even risk compliance over it.

From an attacker perspective they don't know the lib version you're using, but bruteforcing / finding patterns faster than a hacker can? That's what I believe AI can do. This is why for me CVEs are a useless metric, the number and/or criticality. It's a simple security control but they are giving it so much importance. Then you "forget" to secure access to your mcp server and this leaks company info, but hey, zero CVEs, soc2 compliance check check check.

I think it's a good practice to fix as many CVEs as possible, to have a clean/updated codebase, but I am of the opinion that if someone wants, with the tools they have nowadays, they will find a way in. Of course, using a lib that has obvious security issues for input validation, for example, should be a no-go. However, we're reaching a point of ridicule (like you said above, a critical CVE but unreachable).