- Initial State: 25 vulnerabilities (7 moderate, 16 high, 2 critical)
- Final State: 17 vulnerabilities (4 moderate, 13 high, 0 critical)
- Improvement: Eliminated 2 critical and 6 other vulnerabilities
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Removed webdriver-manager (v12.1.9)
- Had critical vulnerabilities in form-data and request dependencies
- Not used anywhere in the codebase
- Removed along with 64 transitive dependencies
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Removed @astrojs/vercel (v9.0.2)
- Not used in the project
- Had high severity vulnerabilities in path-to-regexp
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Removed crypto package (v1.0.1)
- Not used anywhere in the codebase
- Unnecessary dependency
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Total Impact:
- Removed 296 packages
- Reduced from 836 to 476 packages
- Significantly reduced attack surface
The 17 remaining vulnerabilities are primarily in the vercel package and its transitive dependencies:
- path-to-regexp (CVE: GHSA-9wv6-86v2-598j)
- Severity: High
- Issue: Backtracking regular expressions (ReDoS)
- Status: Requires Vercel to update their dependencies
- Mitigation: These are in deployment tooling, not runtime code
These vulnerabilities are in development/deployment tools (Vercel CLI) and don't affect the runtime security of the static website itself.
CodeQL security scanning was run with 0 alerts found:
- ✅ JavaScript: No security issues detected
- Monitor Vercel Updates: Keep an eye on Vercel CLI updates that address the path-to-regexp vulnerabilities
- Regular Audits: Run
npm auditregularly to catch new vulnerabilities - Dependency Updates: Keep dependencies up to date with
npm update - Security Headers: Consider adding security headers via Cloudflare or Vercel configuration
The project's security posture has been significantly improved by:
- Eliminating all critical vulnerabilities
- Removing unused dependencies with known security issues
- Reducing the dependency tree by ~35%
- Passing CodeQL security analysis with zero alerts
The remaining vulnerabilities are in deployment tooling and do not affect the production website's security.