Mend Research Report — Remediating Vulnerabilities in npm Packages

As AppSec practices continue to shift left into development, the task of ensuring that open source libraries are up-to-date and vulnerability-free falls on developers’ shoulders — and it is quite a task. In order to gain a better understanding of the process of open source vulnerability management, our Knowledge Team analyzed vulnerable npm packages, checking the CVE publication date and comparing it to the release date of the vulnerabilities’ fix.