docs: clarify advisory-driven malware detection limits#41
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Summary
Clarifies how CVE Lite CLI handles malicious package incidents and supply-chain compromises.
This PR updates the README to explain that detection is advisory-driven through OSV/GHSA data. It makes clear that the tool can detect malicious versions found in lockfiles once those versions are represented in the upstream advisory data, but it is not a real-time malware detector or behavioral analysis tool.
Changes
package.jsonfallback remains limitedWhy
Recent supply-chain incidents can create the expectation that any scanner should catch malicious packages immediately. This change sets the right expectation without weakening the value of the tool.
CVE Lite CLI is intentionally local-first and lightweight. Its strength is practical lockfile scanning with OSV-backed advisory matching, not pre-publication malware analysis.
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Notes
This is a documentation-only change. No scanner behavior was changed in this PR.