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Re:Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM by matthewbauer on Saturday June 08, 2019 @07:17PM (#20135844)
This same thing is done anywhere semver is used or any other version range system. This includes python, rust, go, and many more.
Re:Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM by fwip on Saturday June 08, 2019 @07:27PM (#20135897)
Go's official package management solution actually only fetches the minimum specified version of each dependency. So auto-upgrades never happen except when you explicitly update a dependency to a newer version.