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Build-time dependency advisories in electron-builder and vite

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript, vite
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reviewing the package manifest and lockfile, then inspect the npm audit dependency paths listed in the issue. Check for fixed versions of electron-builder and vite or whether overrides can address the vulnerable transitive packages. Verify that packaging still works; done means the listed build-time advisories are resolved without breaking packaging.

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Description

enhancement priority: low security severity: low

From SEV-15 of the earlier AUDIT_REPORT.md, re-checked with npm audit on 2026-10-07.

npm audit --omit=dev reports 0 vulnerabilities, so nothing in the shipped app is affected. The full audit reports 2 high and 8 moderate advisories, all in build tooling:

  • http-cache-semantics 4.2.0 (high, GHSA-ch52-4w7c-c8xp) via electron-builder → app-builder-lib → @electron/get → got → cacheable-request
  • source-map-js 1.2.1 (high, GHSA-68fv-2mgg-jv7q) via vite → postcss
  • sprintf-js 1.1.3 (moderate, GHSA-hp3w-g68c-fv3c) via @electron/get → global-agent → roarr, plus the moderate parents in the electron-builder chain

These packages only run while building or downloading Electron, but CI and release builds do run them.

Proposal

Bump electron-builder and vite once fixed versions are available, or add overrides for the vulnerable transitive packages and check that packaging still works. #119 covers adding npm audit to CI so new advisories are noticed.

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