npm audit reports 8 high findings. Four of them reach production; the other four are
dev-only and cannot, because prod installs with --omit=dev. Verified rather than
assumed: puppeteer-core, extract-zip, @puppeteer/browsers and js-yaml are all absent
from prod's node_modules.
Three of the four are transitive, and the fix is a patch or minor inside the range
package.json already declares — no API moves, and package.json is untouched by them:
brace-expansion 2.1.2 -> 2.1.4 (archiver -> glob/minimatch)
ip-address 10.2.0 -> 10.5.0 (express-rate-limit)
socket.io-parser 4.2.6 -> 4.2.7 (socket.io)
socket.io-parser was the one worth checking, because a parser change that altered the
wire format would break every deployed player at once rather than fail a test. It does
not: socket.io stays at 4.8.3, engine.io at 6.6.9, and the parser's protocol constant
is still 5. Nothing a player speaks changes.
The fourth is a real bump — nodemailer 6.10.1 -> 9.0.5, across three majors, closing
eight advisories including SMTP command injection and header injection. Our surface is
about as small as it gets: createTransport({host, port, secure, auth}) and sendMail with
from/to/subject/text/html. Engine requirements are unchanged (>=6.0.0), and the entry
point is the same.
The existing email tests mock nodemailer through require.cache, so they would have
stayed green through any breaking change in the library itself — proven, not guessed:
with sendMail patched to throw, those 15 tests still pass. So this adds a test that
drives the REAL library over a loopback SMTP server and asserts on the conversation,
using messages built by our own buildSmtpMessage rather than hand-written ones. That
test does fail against the broken build.
Left alone: extract-zip under puppeteer-core, now with no fix available. It is a
devDependency used only by smoke-ui.js, which already no-ops when it is missing, and the
advisory is symlink traversal while unpacking a downloaded browser — puppeteer-core with
an explicit executablePath never downloads or extracts one.
Production audit goes from 4 high to 0. 1671/1671 pass.
