@storybook/addon-actions versions 5.0.6 and 5.0.5 are incremental releases of Storybook's action logger addon, designed to enhance the development and debugging process for React components. Both versions share a common foundation, providing developers with a powerful tool to monitor and inspect the actions triggered within their Storybook stories. The core functionality remains consistent: logging action calls with their arguments directly in the Storybook UI, aiding in understanding component behavior and interactions.
Notably, version 5.0.6 builds upon the features introduced in 5.0.5, including capabilities for deep object comparison using "fast-deep-equal", and displaying complex data structures with the "react-inspector". While the core dependencies like "uuid", "react", "global", and "lodash" remain at similar versions suggesting underlying stability, there are some updates in @storybook's internal packages like @storybook/addons, @storybook/theming, @storybook/components and @storybook/core-events that jump from version 5.0.5 to 5.0.6 to match the current version. The most apparent difference lies in the releaseDate, version 5.0.6 was released on 2019-04-01, a week after the release of the 5.0.5 version in 2019-03-24. Furthermore there are also some little differences in unpackedSize from 213180 to 213598. Developers already leveraging @storybook/addon-actions will likely find the update to 5.0.6 seamless.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 5.0.6 of the package
node-fetch forwards secure headers to untrusted sites
node-fetch forwards secure headers such as authorization, www-authenticate, cookie, & cookie2 when redirecting to a untrusted site.
Prototype Pollution in lodash
Versions of lodash prior to 4.17.19 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The functions pick, set, setWith, update, updateWith, and zipObjectDeep allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object if the property identifiers are user-supplied. Being affected by this issue requires manipulating objects based on user-provided property values or arrays.
This vulnerability causes the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects and may lead to Denial of Service or Code Execution under specific circumstances.
Prototype Pollution in highlight.js
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. A malicious HTML code block can be crafted that will result in prototype pollution of the base object's prototype during highlighting. If you allow users to insert custom HTML code blocks into your page/app via parsing Markdown code blocks (or similar) and do not filter the language names the user can provide you may be vulnerable.
The pollution should just be harmless data but this can cause problems for applications not expecting these properties to exist and can result in strange behavior or application crashes, i.e. a potential DOS vector.
If your website or application does not render user provided data it should be unaffected.
Versions 9.18.2 and 10.1.2 and newer include fixes for this vulnerability. If you are using version 7 or 8 you are encouraged to upgrade to a newer release.
Manually patch your library to create null objects for both languages and aliases:
const HLJS = function(hljs) {
// ...
var languages = Object.create(null);
var aliases = Object.create(null);
Filter the language names that users are allowed to inject into your HTML to guarantee they are valid.
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ReDOS vulnerabities: multiple grammars
The Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a Denial of Service attack, that exploits the fact that most Regular Expression implementations may reach extreme situations that cause them to work very slowly (exponentially related to input size). An attacker can then cause a program using a Regular Expression to enter these extreme situations and then hang for a very long time.
If are you are using Highlight.js to highlight user-provided data you are possibly vulnerable. On the client-side (in a browser or Electron environment) risks could include lengthy freezes or crashes... On the server-side infinite freezes could occur... effectively preventing users from accessing your app or service (ie, Denial of Service).
This is an issue with grammars shipped with the parser (and potentially 3rd party grammars also), not the parser itself. If you are using Highlight.js with any of the following grammars you are vulnerable. If you are using highlightAuto to detect the language (and have any of these grammars registered) you are vulnerable. Exponential grammars (C, Perl, JavaScript) are auto-registered when using the common grammar subset/library require('highlight.js/lib/common') as of 10.4.0 - see https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/highlightjs/cdn-release@10.4.0/build/highlight.js
All versions prior to 10.4.1 are vulnerable, including version 9.18.5.
Grammars with exponential backtracking issues:
And of course any aliases of those languages have the same issue. ie: hpp is no safer than cpp.
Grammars with polynomial backtracking issues:
And again: any aliases of those languages have the same issue. ie: ruby and rb share the same ruby issues.
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