GitHub ran a security scan to find old vulnerabilities in JavaScript and Ruby libraries in over a half million public repositories. The scan results turned up over four million vulnerabilities and sent alerts to developers to patch the bugs.Â
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The scan initiative started in November and by December 1, nearly half a million vulnerabilities had been patched, according to the ZDNet report.
GitHub plans to also expand its scans of public repositories to Python dependencies later this year as well. Private repositories need to ‘opt in’ to take advantage of the alerts.