Breaking the CVE Cycle: How RapidFort Ends the Patch-and-Pray Struggle

Written by

Saty Sundarram

Published on

April 14, 2025

The Never-Ending CVE Battle: Why Traditional Fixes Fail

Every day, security teams face a relentless flood of vulnerabilities, with thousands of new CVEs reported each year. The result is an exhausting loop: scanning, patching, scanning again—with no end in sight.

But here’s the real issue: Most vulnerabilities originate from unused or unnecessary components that should never reach production.

The Hidden Costs of Traditional CVE Management

🔴 Patch Fatigue – Teams waste hours chasing and fixing vulnerabilities that may not even impact production.

🔴 False Positives – Static scanners flag all known CVEs—regardless of actual risk—forcing teams to sift through the noise.

🔴 Slow Remediation – Compliance mandates like FedRAMP require critical CVEs to be patched within 30 days, yet manual fixes take weeks.

🔴 Security Debt – Unused or unnecessary components remain in containers, introducing vulnerabilities without adding value.
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A Smarter Way: RapidFort Reduces CVEs Before They Become a Problem

Instead of reacting to vulnerabilities, RapidFort takes a proactive approach—removing unnecessary components before they introduce vulnerabilities into your environment.

Build on a Secure Foundation with Near-Zero CVE Images

Most vulnerabilities originate from bloated, outdated container images. RapidFort fixes this by providing pre-hardened, Near-Zero CVE Images, which:

✅ Built on widely trusted LTS Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, and Alpine

✅ Rebuilt and patched daily with upstream security updates to stay current

✅ Hardened using STIG and CIS benchmarks, aligned with NIST SP 800-70 guidance

✅ Validated for FIPS 140-3 readiness, suitable for high-compliance environments

✅ Pre-integrated with SBOM and Real Bill of Materials™ (RBOM™) for full supply chain transparency

By starting with secure images, teams spend less time reacting and more time innovating.

Automate and Optimize with SASM

For the vulnerabilities that do make it through, RapidFort’s Software Attack Surface Management (SASM) platform does what traditional scanners can’t:

✅ RapidFort’s SASM platform removes up to 95% of software vulnerabilities by identifying and eliminating unused or unreachable components using runtime profiling—without requiring code changes. It focuses only on software actually executed in memory, significantly reducing the software attack surface

✅ Focuses only on real threats—analyzing runtime behavior to remove non-impacting CVEs.

✅ Continuously monitors for drift—preventing security degradation over time.

✅ Accelerate compliance readiness with audit-aligned security reports for FedRAMP, SOC 2, CMMC, cATO, and NIS2.
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The result? Security teams stop drowning in CVE reports and start focusing on high-impact initiatives.

Why RapidFort is the Future of CVE Management

Forget endless patching—RapidFort helps eliminate vulnerabilities before they ever reach production by reducing unused and non-impacting components. Unlike traditional static scanners that flag every known CVE regardless of context, RapidFort uses runtime intelligence to identify what truly matters, focusing remediation efforts on real threats. It supports compliance readiness by automating audit-aligned reporting and integrating security benchmarks such as FIPS 140-3, STIG, and CIS. And because it fits seamlessly into your existing workflows, RapidFort secures your containers without slowing down development velocity.

Security shouldn’t be about chasing vulnerabilities—it should be about preventing them. That’s what RapidFort does best.