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High Severity

🟠 Vulnerable and Outdated Components

CWECWE-1104: Using Unmaintained Components
OWASPA06:2021 Security Misconfiguration

🧠 Description

Application uses outdated libraries, frameworks, or dependencies with known vulnerabilities. These can be exploited to compromise the application.

Impact: RCE, XSS, SQLi, Data Breach

🔍 Detection

  • Check package.json, requirements.txt, pom.xml
  • Use npm audit, dependabot, OWASP Dependency-Check
  • Scan with Nuclei, Trivy
  • Check for known CVEs in libraries

🛡️ Mitigation

✅ Regularly update dependencies

✅ Use automated scanning (Dependabot, Snyk)

✅ Remove unused dependencies

✅ Monitor CVE feeds
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