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by davedx 524 days ago
Lots of false positives IME
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That wasn't my experience when I used Snyk at my last job, depending on your definition of FP.

For example, if you're using a multi-protocol networking library, and it says that the version you have installed is has a vulnerability in its SMTP handling, but you don't use the SMTP functionality, is that a FP?

I'd argue that it's irrelevant, but not a false positive.

I never had it get the version of a library wrong.