package-lock.json¶
npm, Inc. (2026). package-lock.json. npm Documentation.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Lockfile or Dependency Snapshot
- It will pin a vulnerable or malicious version exactly as faithfully as a good one, and a lock that is never updated rots — reproducing a known-bad dependency perfectly, long after a patch exists.
This sourceExplains that a package lock reproduces the exact dependency tree and specific resolved package versions recorded in the lockfile.
- It will pin a vulnerable or malicious version exactly as faithfully as a good one, and a lock that is never updated rots — reproducing a known-bad dependency perfectly, long after a patch exists.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
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