Vite 5 vs Next.js 15: High-Scale Memory Security Flaws Explained As modern web apps scale to handle millions of requests, memory management becomes a critical security vector. Both Vite 5 (the latest iteration of the blazing-fast build tool) and Next.js 15 (the dominant React framework) face unique memory-related security risks in high-scale deployments, but the root causes and impacts differ sharply. What Is the High-Scale Memory Security Flaw? At high scale, long-running server processes (or persistent dev/prod runtimes) can accumulate sensitive data in memory: API keys, user sessions, PII, unencrypted payloads. If memory is not properly sanitized, freed, or isolated, attackers who gain runtime access (via RCE, SSRF, or compromised dependencies) can dump memory to extract sensitive data. For high-traffic apps, memory churn exacerbates this: frequent allocation/deallocation leads to fragmentation, use-after-free bugs, or leaked references to sensitive objects.…