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Disclaimer: Just a heads up, while we’re diving into ways to tackle the problem of dependency depreciation, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution here. It’s a bit of a wild ride dealing with supply chain security and those pesky deprecated dependencies, so don’t expect a quick fix! The issue of using deprecated dependencies has persisted for quite some time, and it’s gaining increased attention. Many projects continue to incorporate deprecated dependencies. I was inspired to write this blog after coming across a LinkedIn post by Rory McCune and several other posts over the past few weeks....

In vulnerability scanners or penetration testing reports, you might come across statements like “Service version x.y.z is vulnerable to CVE-YYYY-ABCD." However, it’s essential to delve deeper to confirm the actual vulnerability. Let’s consider a real example: We received a vulnerability report indicating a vulnerability ( CVE-2023-23916 ) in curl v7.74.0 within the Debian 11 environment. The CVE documentation mentions: Affected versions: curl 7.57.0 to and including 7.87.0 At first glance, it appears that v7....