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A Security Fix Should Show Where the Attack Stopped
The concrete problem
A security pull request can be green for the wrong reason. Unit tests may pass, the vulnerable endpoint may return a different status code, and a scanner may stop reporting the original finding. None of those results necessarily shows that the attacker lost the capability that mattered. The same identity might reach the sensitive action through another route, inherit a broader token, or trigger an equivalent workflow with slightly different input.
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