About audit reports

About audit reports

Audit reports contain tables of information about security vulnerabilities in your project's dependencies to help you fix the vulnerability or troubleshoot further.

Screenshot showing command-line audit report results

Vulnerability table fields

Severity

The severity of the vulnerability, determined by the impact and exploitability of the vulnerability in its most common use case.

Severity Recommended action
Critical Address immediately
High Address as quickly as possible
Moderate Address as time allows
Low Address at your discretion

Description

The description of the vulnerability. For example, "Denial of service".

Package

The name of the package that contains the vulnerability.

Patched in

The semantic version range that describes which versions contain a fix for the vulnerability.

Dependency of

The module that the package with the vulnerability depends on.

Path

The path to the code that contains the vulnerability.

More info

A link to the security report.

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