A Clean Audit Is Not a Safe Version
On 16 October npm audit passed next@16.4.0, two days after two Critical RCE advisories named it, while the older 16.3.5 failed. GitHub's Advisory Database, OSV and the npm feed all lacked the new advi...
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Your Server Has More Than One Trust Store
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