Browserify version 2.28.0 represents a minor update over its predecessor, version 2.27.1, both being releases of a tool designed for bundling Node.js-style modules for use in the browser. Examining the provided data, it becomes apparent that the core functionality and dependencies remained largely the same between these two versions. The key dependencies, including "umd", "parents", "through", "duplexer", "inherits", "optimist", "deps-sort", "JSONStream", "module-deps", "shell-quote", "browser-pack", "event-stream", "syntax-error", "concat-stream", "browser-resolve", "browser-builtins", and "insert-module-globals", are all present in both versions with identical version constraints suggesting no significant underlying API changes or feature additions driving a need to update dependency versions. Similarly, the development dependencies utilized for testing and development, such as "seq", "tap", "dnode", "mkdirp", "backbone", and "coffee-script", are unchanged between versions.
The only noticeable distinction lies in the releaseDate and the dist.tarball URL, signifying that 2.28.0 was published three days after 2.27.1. This small time delta, coupled with no visible changes in dependencies, strongly suggests that 2.28.0 likely incorporates minor bug fixes or very targeted improvements, potentially addressing edge cases identified in 2.27.1, and perhaps some security related changes. For developers, upgrading from 2.27.1 to 2.28.0 is recommended to benefit from these stability enhancements, even though no new features are apparent. Given the lack of significant changes, the upgrade is expected to be seamless with no breaking changes. Users should always prioritize using the most recent stable version.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.28.0 of the package
Incorrect Handling of Non-Boolean Comparisons During Minification in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.4.24 are affected by a vulnerability which may cause crafted JavaScript to have altered functionality after minification.
Upgrade UglifyJS to version >= 2.4.24.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.6.0 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when malicious inputs are passed into the parse() method.
var u = require('uglify-js');
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
u.parse("var a = " + genstr(process.argv[2], "1") + ".1ee7;");
$ time node test.js 10000
real 0m1.091s
user 0m1.047s
sys 0m0.039s
$ time node test.js 80000
real 0m6.486s
user 0m6.229s
sys 0m0.094s
Update to version 2.6.0 or later.
Prototype Pollution in minimist
Affected versions of minimist are vulnerable to prototype pollution. Arguments are not properly sanitized, allowing an attacker to modify the prototype of Object, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.
Parsing the argument --__proto__.y=Polluted adds a y property with value Polluted to all objects. The argument --__proto__=Polluted raises and uncaught error and crashes the application.
This is exploitable if attackers have control over the arguments being passed to minimist.
Upgrade to versions 0.2.1, 1.2.3 or later.
Prototype Pollution in minimist
Minimist prior to 1.2.6 and 0.2.4 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via file index.js, function setKey() (lines 69-95).
Potential Command Injection in shell-quote
Affected versions of shell-quote do not properly escape command line arguments, which may result in command injection if the library is used to escape user input destined for use as command line arguments.
The following characters are not escaped properly: >,;,{,}
Bash has a neat but not well known feature known as "Bash Brace Expansion", wherein a sub-command can be executed without spaces by running it between a set of {} and using the , instead of to seperate arguments. Because of this, full command injection is possible even though it was initially thought to be impossible.
const quote = require('shell-quote').quote;
console.log(quote(['a;{echo,test,123,234}']));
// Actual "a;{echo,test,123,234}"
// Expected "a\;\{echo,test,123,234\}"
// Functional Equivalent "a; echo 'test' '123' '1234'"
Update to version 1.6.1 or later.
Potential for Script Injection in syntax-error
Versions of syntax-error prior to 1.1.1 are affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability which may allow a malicious file to execute code when browserified.
Update to version 1.1.1 or later.