Method and system for proactively providing fixes for vulnerabilities of an application upgrade while performing the application upgrade

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for performing an application upgrade, the method comprising:

• receiving an application upgrade request to upgrade an application to a specific version from a client device;
• sending information related to the application upgrade to a vulnerability validator;
• determining, based on impact score information, that the specific version of the application has vulnerabilities;
• identifying, based on the determining, at least one fix for at least one of the vulnerabilities;
• generating an application upgrade package based on the specific version of the application and the at least one fix;
• and
• providing the application upgrade package to a client device upgrade manager.

A system for performing an application upgrade, the system comprising:

• a processor comprising circuitry;
• memory comprising instructions, which when executed perform a method, the method comprising:
• receiving an application upgrade request to upgrade an application to a specific version from a client device;
• sending information related to the application upgrade to a vulnerability validator;
• determining, based on impact score information, that the specific version of the application has vulnerabilities;
• identifying, based on the determining, at least one fix for at least one of the vulnerabilities;
• generating an application upgrade package based on the specific version of the application and the at least one fix;
• and
• providing the application upgrade package to a client device upgrade manager.