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This post is an unfortunate affirmation of our prior research into abandoned open-source packages, where we found that 11% of the most-downloaded packages have been abandoned and not actively maintained, becoming invisible vulnerabilities to your scanner. Today we share a zip-slip vulnerability we found in extract-zip (CVE-2026-19693), an npm package with over 20 million weekly downloads.

How to evaluate your options, price the status quo, and make a decision your executive team will actually approve. A note on the numbers. The salaries, headcounts, and costs in this guide are illustrative. They're drawn to be realistic so the math works the way it does in a real budget meeting - but they're examples, not benchmarks. Replace them with your own.