# NodeJS Security Cheat Sheet — Keep your packages up-to-date

> Security of your application depends directly on how secure the third-party packages you use in your application are.

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## Knowledge

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Security of your application depends directly on how secure the third-party packages you use in your application are. Therefore, it is important to keep your packages up-to-date. It should be noted that Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities is still in the OWASP Top 10. You can use OWASP Dependency-Check to see if any of the packages used in the project has a known vulnerability. Also, you can use Retire.js to check JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities.

Starting with version 6, npm introduced audit, which will warn about vulnerable packages

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
npm audit
```

npm also introduced a simple way to upgrade the affected packages

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
npm audit fix
```

There are several other tools you can use to check your dependencies. A more comprehensive list can be found in Vulnerable Dependency Management CS.

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