What are the biggest complaints developers have about npm audit and managing package vulnerabilities in their daily workflow this year?
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What are the biggest complaints developers have about npm audit and managing package vulnerabilities in their daily workflow this year?
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- Understanding npm Developers' Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations for Secure Package Development · arxiv.org
- Understanding npm Developers’ Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations for Secure Package Development · peruma.me
- of current SCA tools, which operate at the package-level. This approach fails to determine whether the vulnerable code is actually reachable, not to mention exploitable. Our large-scale evaluation confirms this imprecision is severe. Our analysis suggests that 68.28% of alerts generated by package-level analysis appear to be false positives (noise). This massive “alert fatigue” leads to “patching paralysis,” where even with fixes available for over 95% of vulnerable components, 80% of enterprise · ndss-symposium.org
- Developer Survey: Security Friction in the SDLC · safeguard.sh
- Why Doesn't npm audit fix Actually Fix My Vulnerabilities? · safeguard.sh
- npm audit Noise: Triaging CVEs Without Turning Off the Alarm · codewithkarani.com
- cli/docs/lib/content/commands/npm-audit.md at latest · npm/cli · github.com
- Inside the Advisory Database · github.blog