v3.16.2 — ADR-165 Phase 1: 5 critical CVEs closed

What's fixed in 3.16.2

PATCH release shipping ADR-165 Phase 1 — close every critical CVE in both workspaces.

Critical-severity advisories closed (5 → 0)

Workspace	Before	After
Root	1 critical, 6 high, 31 moderate (38 total)	0 critical, 0 high, 31 moderate (31 total)
v3	4 critical, 33 high, 57 moderate (97 total)	0 critical, 27 high, 58 moderate (88 total)

Each critical chain closed:

• vitest — GHSA-5xrq-8626-4rwp (CVSS 9.8 — UI server arbitrary file read+exec)
• handlebars — prototype-pollution RCE chain (toolchain-only path verified non-user-reachable)
• protobufjs — constructor-pollution chain
• Plus 2 additional v3 criticals via overrides

12 of 39 high-severity advisories also closed (the remaining 27 v3 highs need major-bump migrations — flagged for ADR-165 Phase 2).

Other deliverables in this release

• CVE registry rewritten: 5 stale Jan-2026 entries → 16 current entries. CVE-REMEDIATION.ts::validateRemediation() now correctly returns allFixed: false with 1 known open (ADR165-OPEN-01 — PII pipeline wiring).
• New CI gate: .github/workflows/cve-audit.yml blocks PRs on any critical, warn-only on high, runs on every PR + push + daily cron.
• ADR-165 §9 evidence ledger updated with after-remediation npm audit metadata.

Verified

• 113/113 PR #2508 CI checks green
• 105/109 vitest pass (4 skip-conditional)
• 352/352 MCP tools pass ADR-112 audit
• 11/11 + 8/8 + 8/8 smoke contracts (business-pods, agentbbs, agenticow)
• npm audit --audit-level=critical exit 0 in BOTH workspaces

Install / upgrade

npx ruflo@latest             # 3.16.2
npx @claude-flow/cli@latest  # 3.16.2
npx claude-flow@latest       # 3.16.2

npm dist-tags

@claude-flow/cli  latest=3.16.2  alpha=3.16.2  v3alpha=3.16.2
claude-flow       latest=3.16.2  alpha=3.16.2  v3alpha=3.16.2
ruflo             latest=3.16.2  alpha=3.16.2  v3alpha=3.16.2

Related

• ADR docs/adr/ADR-165-security-cve-posture-review.md
• PR #2508 — fix(security): Phase 1 close-out
• PR #2509 — chore(release): 3.16.1 → 3.16.2

Phase 2 (next release)

Targets 3.17.0 — automated cve-watch.yml + per-tool validator coverage audit + v3 high-severity transitive chain remediation.