Built-in to the npm command-line tool is a command, npm audit, for reporting known vulnerabilities in the dependencies of your application. To support this command is a team of people, and software, who scan packages added to the npm registry. Every third-party package used by your application is a potential security hole.
It's not just that a query against the application might trigger buggy code, whether in your code or third-party packages. In some cases, packages that explicitly cause harm have been added to the npm registry.
Therefore the security audits of packages in the npm registry are extremely helpful to every Node.js developer.
The audit command consults the vulnerability data collected by the auditing team and tells you about vulnerabilities in packages your application uses.
When running npm install, the output might include a message like this:
found 8 vulnerabilities (7 low, 1 moderate)
run `npm audit fix` to...
