Ansi-html is a lightweight npm package designed to convert text styled with ANSI escape codes (often produced by libraries like Chalk) into HTML, making it easy to display colored console output in web browsers. Version 0.0.6, released in October 2016, builds upon the prior stable version 0.0.5, released in November 2015, with subtle but potentially important updates, focusing primarily on dev dependencies. Both versions lack runtime dependencies, ensuring a small footprint for your projects.
The key changes reside in the developer tooling. Version 0.0.6 upgrades Chalk from ~1.1.1 to ^1.1.3 and Lodash from ~2.4.1 to ^2.4.2. These are minor version bumps, mostly bug fixes and minor improvements within the respective major version. While these changes probably did not cause any API breakage, developers should be aware that upgraded versions of tools might contain subtle differences, even though there is a version bump on the right. In comparison, the license changed from "Apache, Version 2.0" to "Apache-2.0"; it is essentially the same license though with slightly different notation.
If you are considering using ansi-html, be aware of its simplicity and how it fits into your workflow. Version 0.0.6 offers the latest bug fixes and improvements made to its dev dependencies. This library is ideal for situations where you need to present styled console output (generated using tools like Chalk) in an HTML context.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.0.6 of the package
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ansi-html
This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.
