Dusting Off the Relics: Security Fixes for Hive-Engine History

Hey everyone,

Sometimes, the infrastructure we rely on works so well that it effectively becomes invisible. It sits in the background, churning away, doing its job perfectly... until you look at the commit history and realize it hasn't been touched in eight years.

I recently took a dive into the hive-engine/ssc_tokens_history repository. As you can see, it was a bit of a time capsule:

Screenshot 2026-01-25 at 07-15-42 hive-engine_ssc_tokens_history.png

The "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality is great for uptime, but terrible for security. I ran an audit and found 11 vulnerabilities hiding in the ancient dependency tree, including some high-severity issues.

The Fix (PR #33)

I’ve submitted Pull Request #33 to bring this repo into the modern era.

Github: https://github.com/hive-engine/ssc_tokens_history/pull/33

The changes were strictly configuration and dependency updates, no application code was harmed in the making of this PR.

Updated sscjs and pg to their latest stable versions.
Bumped eslint to clean up the dev environment.
Forced a resolution on axios to patch a nasty CSRF vulnerability that the dependency tree was dragging in.

The result? A clean npm audit and a more secure foundation for our token history.

What's Next?

Now that the cobwebs are cleared, I’m going to give the codebase a proper review. I’m looking for easy wins, optimizations, and areas where we can improve performance without reinventing the wheel. Expect another PR once I’ve identified the best path forward.

Maintenance isn't glamorous, but it keeps the lights on.

As always,
Michael Garcia a.k.a. TheCrazyGM

Hey mate, thanks for spending time looking at these things... but the history repo is this one: https://github.com/hive-engine/ssc_tokens_history/tree/hive

The master one is pretty old. I am not using it at least...

I will have look at the PR anyways later today.

Oh, thanks for pointing that out, i wasn't sure if it was master or v2 or any of the other branches. I'll put in a fix on the appropriate branch in the morning (if i still have power, I'm in the ice storm path)

Excellent work here, its interesting that the history node uses postgres 👀

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Used to be postgres I think.

But because then it was useful to have all on mongo, the "hive" branch moved things to mongo.

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I very much appreciate the meticulous work that you do, my friend. You're literally making things better for all of us, which is huge. Thank you! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙