Nested property access without existence check

#Metadata

Rule ID

ts.correctness.nested-property-access-without-check

Severity

medium

Confidence

0.8

Languages

javascript, typescript

Presets

recommended, strict

Stability

stable

Applies to

block

Tags

correctness, crq-cor-002, null, rules-catalog

#Why it matters

Multi-hop access into request or payload objects is brittle when any segment can be absent, renamed, or malformed.

#Remediation

Add guards for the intermediate objects or switch the chain to explicit optional access with a fallback.

#Repository path

The generated metadata points to critiq-rules/libs/rules/catalog/rules/typescript/ts.correctness.nested-property-access-without-check.rule.yaml.