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When ‘Are We Affected?’ Requires Reconstructing Yesterday’s npm Install

The concrete problem A package is reported compromised. Your security channel immediately fills with one question: did we ship it? Looking at the repository’s current dependency tree is not enough. The vulnerable version may have existed for only a short time. Renovate may already have replaced it. A lockfile may have changed after the release. A Docker layer or CI cache may have reused something that no longer appears on the default branch. Even a clean scan today can say very little about the artifact built yesterday. This makes supply-chain response a reconstruction problem. The useful unit is not the repository as it exists now; it is a particular artifact, produced by a particular build, from a particular set of resolved packages. The current signal On August 4, Aikido disclosed that a maintainer account behind Keyv-related packages had been compromised and that malicious releases used install-time code to steal credentials and propagate. In RayTally’s
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