npm audit reports advisories for the whole tree including devDependencies, so counts overstate runtime risk
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npm audit walks the installed tree and reports every advisory that matches, with no distinction between code that ships and code that only ever runs on a developer machine. A build tool's transitive dependency with a regular-expression denial-of-service advisory is counted the same as a vulnerability in the HTTP framework serving production traffic.
Use npm audit --omit=dev to see the set that actually affects the deployed artifact. That is the number worth gating a release on. The full report is still useful for supply-chain hygiene, just not as a release blocker.
npm audit fix --force is the other trap: it is allowed to install semver-major upgrades, which means it can silently change public API behavior across your dependency tree. Run it, read the diff of package.json and the lockfile, and run the test suite before committing. When only a transitive package needs pinning, an overrides entry is a smaller change than a major bump of the direct dependency.
Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/commands/npm-audit
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