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Most CVEs for Java are about untrusted code escaping the sandbox. No one is saying JavaScript is a bad language for server side development despite browser sandboxes constantly leaking.

Yes, there was a popular logger library that was written badly that tried to interpret log messages as potential source for fetching code dynamically from remote locations. Something that was thought to be the future 25 years ago, but had mostly been abandoned in all modern code.




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