An embodiment of an electronic processing apparatus may include a database constructor to construct a dependency database of deployed components in an environment, a vulnerability tracer to trace a vulnerability against the dependency database and to determine one or more affected deployed components based on the trace, and a vulnerability resolver to retrieve environment-specific rules based on the determined one or more affected deployed components and to prioritize mitigation of the vulnerability for the one or more affected deployed components based at least in part on the retrieved environment-specific rules.