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What is a Vulnerability and What’s Not? Making Sense of Node.js and Express Threat Models

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Talkat Node Congress 2025 · 2025-04-17..04-18· at 16:40· [security, nodejs]

Explains the Node.js and Express threat models the speaker co-authored, detailing their explicit trust boundaries and assumptions. Uses real-world vulnerabilities to show which issues fit those models, clarifies common misconceptions about severity and exploitability, and discusses implications for bug bounties and long-term fixes.

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