The process of using a known security vulnerability as a seed to find similar problems in your code is called?

• A. Variant Analysis
• B. Security Overview
• C. Path Queries
• D. Code-Scanning

Answer: (A)

Variant Analysis takes a seed vulnerability pattern—like a known weakness in code—and searches the entire codebase for similar patterns, contexts, or configurations that could indicate the same underlying flaw. This approach expands detection beyond exact duplicates, catching variants that look different but stem from the same vulnerability. It’s designed to surface related issues in both your own code and dependencies, enabling faster triage and remediation. The other options describe different things: Security Overview is a broad dashboard of security status, Path Queries are about specific code-path explorations and do not specialize in seed-based vulnerability expansion, and Code-Scanning is the overall process of scanning for issues rather than the seed-based variant search itself.