Is your Node.js project really secure?

Most Node.js teams have dependency scanners but still lack actionable workflows. The real gap is not detection but usability: developers need to know which vulnerabilities are directly fixable, which are transitive, and what the remediation path looks like before release. CVE Lite CLI is an open source local-first tool that scans JavaScript/TypeScript lockfiles against OSV data, separates direct from transitive findings, shows dependency paths, and surfaces fixed-version commands to enable a scan-fix-rescan loop without waiting for CI. Case studies against NestJS, pnpm, and release-it demonstrate how the tool turns raw vulnerability counts into actionable remediation context, including iterative upgrade paths for complex transitive dependency chains.