# Vulnerabilities
### What is Vulnerability?
A security flaw, glitch, or weakness found in software code that could be exploited by an attacker (threat source).
To understand the overall risk of a software, it is important to understand the vulnerabilities of the direct as well as the transitive dependencies.
### Understanding Vulnerabilities
* Count of components that are vulnerable is displayed towards left, along with the category of the components (open-source, private, third-party, unknown).
* The vulnerability count is displayed towards the right, grouped by severity (critical, high, medium, low).
* Each tile is clickable which will list down the components applicable to that filter in a table view. The details will list the component name, version, total vulnerabilities and a capsule for vulnerabilities details.
* By clicking the vulnerabilities capsule, next level details will be shown as below.
* By clicking on any row, the sidesheet shows up as shown below.
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