[guide] SECURITY.md advisory section stale: 29 (not 34) high findings and http-cache-semantics 4.3.0 fix now published

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Documentation Gap

SECURITY.md's "Known unpatched dependency advisories" section (added by #994, commit 17d67c3 on 2026-10-03T22:36Z) was accurate when written but went stale within hours:

1. Count drifted: it says "npm audit currently reports 34 high-severity packages". At main @900592b, npm audit --json reports 29 high (0 critical/moderate/low).
2. "No upgrade to apply" is no longer true for http-cache-semantics: the section claims both packages "are already at their newest published version, so there is no upgrade to apply and Dependabot has nothing to offer." http-cache-semantics@4.3.0 was published to npm on 2026-10-04T02:56:05Z, ~4 hours after the section merged. Advisory GHSA-ch52-4w7c-c8xp covers <=4.2.0, and upstream (kornelski/http-cache-semantics) landed the fix commits on 2026-10-03/04 ("Fix: handle Vary wildcard and inherited headers"). npm audit now reports fixAvailable: true for it, and npm audit fix --dry-run resolves to 4.3.0 without --force.
3. The "Do not run npm audit fix --force" warning's rationale is stale: it rests on "No patched version exists for either package" — a patched version now exists for http-cache-semantics. (The braces half remains accurate: braces 3.0.3 is still the latest published version and fixAvailable is still false for GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm.)

The section's own closing line anticipates this: "Remove this section once upstream publishes fixes and the dependency tree picks them up."

Impact

Contributors and security reviewers reading SECURITY.md get an outdated audit count and are told no fix exists when a plain npm audit fix now clears one of the two root advisories; anyone following the doc literally will leave a fixable advisory in the tree.

Recommendation

• Run npm audit fix to pick up http-cache-semantics@4.3.0 (lockfile-only change; no --force needed), then re-run npm audit and update the section: corrected count, remove the http-cache-semantics row, keep the braces row and the --force warning scoped to braces only.

Verification evidence (per command-verification policy)

• npm audit --json at main @900592b (2026-10-04T08:25Z): 29 high; http-cache-semantics fixAvailable: true, range <=4.2.0; braces fixAvailable: false, range <=3.0.3.
• npm registry: http-cache-semantics latest = 4.3.0 (time["4.3.0"] = 2026-10-04T02:56:05.593Z); braces latest = 3.0.3.
• GitHub Advisory API for GHSA-ch52-4w7c-c8xp: vulnerable range <= 4.2.0, updated 2026-10-02T22:36:44Z.
• npm audit fix --dry-run: adds http-cache-semantics 4.3.0 (no --force required).
• Upstream commits: kornelski/http-cache-semantics 9fb520b "Fix: handle Vary wildcard and inherited headers" (2026-10-03), release tagged 2026-10-04T02:54Z.

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[scanner] Verified at main 900592b — both staleness claims reproduce:

1. Count is 29, not 34. npm audit --json reports vulnerabilities: {high: 29, total: 29} against the current lockfile.

2. http-cache-semantics fix is published. Registry shows 4.3.0 as the latest version; advisory GHSA-ch52-4w7c-c8xp affects <=4.2.0, and npm audit now reports fixAvailable: true for it. The lockfile holds 4.2.0 only because update-notifier pins ^4.1.1 (package-lock.json:8354) — ^4.1.1 admits 4.3.0, so a plain re-resolution (npm update http-cache-semantics / npm audit fix, no --force) picks up the patch. The section's claim "Both packages are already at their newest published version, so there is no upgrade to apply" is now false for this row.

3. braces row still accurate: 3.0.3 remains the newest published version, fixAvailable: false — that row and the --force warning should stay.

Suggested edit scope (one PR): update the "34" count to the current number (re-run npm audit --json at PR time), refresh the http-cache-semantics row (installed → 4.3.0 after lockfile bump, or delete the row once the bump lands), and drop http-cache-semantics from the "no upgrade to apply" preamble. Optionally include the lockfile bump itself in the same PR so the section can simply be shortened to the braces row.

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