What Is a CVE and How Should You Prioritize Patch Management?

This article explains what CVEs and CVSS scores are, highlights the growing importance of CVE intelligence in 2025 (including examples tied to MOVEit and Cleo breaches), and recommends risk-based vulnerability management practices—such as integrating threat feeds, prioritizing by exploitability and asset exposure, enforcing SLA-based patching, and extending visibility into third-party supply chains—to reduce exposure to actively exploited vulnerabilities.