MUMBAI, India, June 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611053580 A) filed by Hcl Technologies Limited, New Delhi, on April 27, for 'method and system for determining post-patch residual exploitability of vulnerabilities in software systems.'
Inventor(s) include S G B Subhiram Gurlinka; Shivaram K; and Subramanyam C.
The application for the patent was published on June 5, under issue no. 23/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method (1200) and system (100) for determining post-patch residual exploitability of vulnerabilities in a software system are disclosed. Dependency data, vulnerability data, and a patch descriptor identifying a software patch applicable to at least one software component of the software system is received. A software dependency graph is constructed based on the dependency data. A vulnerability-annotated dependency graph (400) is generated. A post-patch dependency graph (500) is generated by applying the patch descriptor to the vulnerability-annotated dependency graph using a delta propagation technique. One or more post-patch attack paths (600) to a vulnerable node that remains associated with a known vulnerability in the post-patch dependency graph is determined based on the post-patch dependency graph. A post-patch residual exploitability score for the vulnerable node is determined based on the one or more post-patch attack paths (600)."
Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.
