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> it will just crash the program, but will not cause an expensive and urgent CVE ticket.

Unfortunately, security hysteria also treats any crash as "an expensive and urgent CVE ticket". See, for instance, ReDoS, where auditors will force you to update a dependency even if there's no way for a user to provide the vulnerable input (for instance, it's fixed in the configuration file).

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I agree security issues are often hyped nowadays. I think this is often due to two factors: (A) security researches get more money if they can convince people a CVE is worse. So of course they make it sound extremely bad. (B) security "review" teams in software companies do the least amount of work, and so it's just a binary "is a dependency with a vulnerability used yes/no" and then force the engineering team to update the dependency, even thought its useless. I have seen (was involved) in a number of such cases. This is wasting a lot of time. Long term, this can mean the engineering team will try to reduce the dependencies, which is not the worst of outcomes.

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