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If the app is actively maintained, it will update the dependency to fix the security issue.

If the app is not actively maintained, unless trivial, it likely has unpatched vulnerabilities of its own anyway.

And on macOS, if the app is not actively maintained, it usually breaks after a couple major releases regardless of anything else, because Apple doesn't believe in backwards compatibility.



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