Kodem CORE leverages eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a Linux kernel technology, to achieve lightweight, real-time monitoring of system-level events, including system calls, network activity, and process execution. By running within a sandboxed kernel environment, eBPF provides deep observability without requiring intrusive code instrumentation or application restarts. The sandboxed nature of eBPF ensures system stability by enforcing strict execution boundaries, while its JIT-compiled programs deliver high performance with negligible overhead.

Unlike traditional monitoring tools that rely on heavyweight agents, eBPF integrates directly with the kernel, enabling Kodem CORE to collect granular runtime data while maintaining minimal resource usage. This approach ensures compatibility across modern Linux distributions, containerized workloads, and serverless architectures.

Kodem leverages advanced memory analysis to validate the real-world exploitability of vulnerabilities within libraries and dependencies. By monitoring live application behavior, Kodem determines whether a file containing a vulnerable function was opened, read, or modified during runtime. It further confirms whether the vulnerable function was loaded into memory and invoked during code execution. This granular validation bridges the gap between theoretical risks surfaced by static analysis and actual runtime threats, ensuring security teams focus only on vulnerabilities that are actively reachable, executed, and exploitable in the live environment.

This dual-layer approach—combining eBPF for system observability with memory analysis for process-level insights—bridges a critical gap between traditional static analysis and runtime validation. Static tools often surface theoretical vulnerabilities without context, while Kodem CORE confirms their real-world impact by correlating runtime execution paths and memory state.