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> "Have you ever gotten a "critical vulnerability in dependency" alert and when you look at it, it's something like “XML parser vulnerability in some buried tra
by kramerger 4y ago
> "Have you ever gotten a "critical vulnerability in dependency" alert and when you look at it, it's something like “XML parser vulnerability in some buried transitive library that you actually use for parsing JSON and therefore aren’t affected by at all?"
Stop right there pal.
This amateurish risk assessment is part of the problem. How do you know that, say, an XML file cannot be smuggled disguised as a JSON into your app?
- tpetry 4y agoOr all the regex DoS vulnerabilities in the dev part of my package json. The worst that can happen is my build process hanging forever if someone commits special code to trigger the issue…