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UnvalidatedDynamicMethodCall query does not detect flow inside try/catch

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Hi CodeQL team 👋

I'm currently building some training challenges for developers to help them identify insecure dynamic method calls. I designed one of the [exercises](https://github.com/fguisso/backoffice-balm) based on the `UnvalidatedDynamicMethodCall` alert.

However, I noticed that the vulnerability I created was not detected by the query. After a lot of debugging, I suspect the query does not handle taint flow properly when the logic is inside arrow functions.

- The vulnerable code uses an Express route with an arrow function as the handler.
- Inside the arrow function, I access `req.params.action` and use it to dynamically invoke a method: `userManager[action](...)`.
- This allows access to both regular and admin-only methods of the userManager object.

Unfortunately, this pattern wasn't flagged by the query, even though it's clearly unsafe.

I'm still learning how CodeQL queries work, and I'm not very experienced with the query language yet. I'd really appreciate any help understanding why this scenario is missed, and how I might contribute a feature for it.

I'd love to open a PR — just need some guidance on how to proceed the right way.

`update`: I have tested here like @rvermeulen said and the catch is the `try/catch`.

`git blaming` cc: @asgerf

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从 UnvalidatedDynamicMethodCall 查询开始,并复现 issue 中链接的训练挑战。比较使用 req.params.action 的 Express 路由在 arrow-function 处理程序中有无 try/catch 时的情况,然后确认在 issue 修复后可以检测到存在漏洞的动态调用。

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