Addressing security vulnerabilities

Sometimes you will be notified about security vulnerabilities in certain packages, through blogs or if you're using GitHub, you may notice warning like this on your repository:

GitHub.com Vulnerability Scan

This is a specific issue that arose when my Angular application was on version 5.0.0 and my CLI version was on 1.5.0. If you review this dependency, you can see the dependent packages and get more detail on the issue.

GitHub.com Security Bulletin

In this case, the vulnerable version of handlebars, 1.3.0 is being caused by one of Angular 5.0 packages.

Further research on Angular's GitHub issues reveals that the issue is actually caused by @angular/cli version 1.5.0. The reference is https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/20654.

This was to try an update to the latest minor version update of Angular, Material or CLI, which in...