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Comment by dns_snek

4 hours ago

> There are a lot of things that are bugs, but cannot be exploited in a standard configuration

And this describes the vast majority of CVEs you see when you scan your dependencies. Typical case: Your regex library has a denial of service vulnerability for crafted regular expressions but your program never allows users to have any influence over the regex.

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