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SecurityOctober 28, 2026, 22:37

GitHub Dependabot ignores bun.lock and misses transitive dependency alerts

GitHub Dependabot does not parse bun.lock files, so Bun projects get no alerts for transitive dependencies and their vulnerabilities. In a test, bun audit found three vulnerabilities while Dependabot raised only one. The workaround is to submit the lockfile manually via GitHub's dependency submission API.

GitHub Dependabot ignores bun.lock and misses transitive dependency alerts
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