Dependency Auditing — Automated Vulnerability Scanning
npm audit, Snyk, Dependabot, and CI integration for continuous dependency security
In the previous lesson, we covered how supply chain attacks exploit the trust model of package management. This lesson is about the other side of that coin — the known vulnerabilities that accumulate silently in your dependency tree.
Every day, researchers discover new CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) in npm packages. Some are critical — remote code execution, authentication bypass, prototype pollution. Others are informational — regular expression denial of service in a dev-only dependency. The problem isn't that these vulnerabilities exist. The problem is that most developers never check.
By the time you're reading this lesson, there's a good chance your current project has at least one dependency with a known vulnerability. Let's find it and fix it.
npm audit — Your Fi
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