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React (a frontend JS framework) can now bring down critical Internet infrastructure.

I will repeat it because it's so surreal: React (a frontend JS framework) can now bring down critical Internet infrastructure.



That's Next.js, not React.

Mentioning React Server Components in the status page can be seen as a bad way to shift the blame. Would have been better to not specify which CVE they were trying to patch. The issue is their rollout management, not the Vendor and CVE.


> That's Next.js, not React.

React seems to think that it was React:

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab...


True, thanks for sharing. Worth mentioning that's on the "full-stack" part of the framework. It doesn't impact most React website while it impacts most next.js websites.


It was React. Code in React's repository had to be patched to fix this.

Next.JS just happens to be the biggest user of this part of React, but blaming Next.JS is weird...


Thanks, that's what I acknowledged in the message you just replied to.

I'm not blaming anyone. Mostly outlining who was impacted as it's not really related to the front-end parts of the framework that the initial comment was referring to.


I think the "argument" is that it's a critical vuln so they can't "go slow".

So now a vuln check for a component deployed on, being generous, 1% of servers causes an outage for 30% of the internet.

The argument is dumb.


To be accurate: React developed server-side capabilities, and that's where the vulnerability exists.

It's feels noteworthy because React started out frontend-only, but pedantically it's just another backend with a vulnerability.


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What was the AI slop part?


When something goes wrong, people are starting to immediately assume it's because of the thing they don't like.




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