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Industry posts on the DepOversight blog: field notes on dependency security, pre-disclosure signals, and the tooling around them.
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Why CVE scanners are not early-warning systems
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CVE scanners are good at one job, telling you which dependencies match a published advisory. That job ends where the most expensive incidents begin.
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Silent patches: the security fixes nobody tells you about
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A non-trivial fraction of security-relevant fixes ship without an advisory, ever. Here is what that means for the dependency graph you have today, and the few signals that catch them.
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The hidden window between a security fix and a public CVE
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For most vulnerabilities, the fix lands in main long before any advisory or CVE exists. The gap is measured in days for the lucky cases and months for the median. Here is what happens in that window.