Coffee-coverage is a valuable tool for JavaScript developers leveraging CoffeeScript, providing JSCoverage-style instrumentation to analyze code coverage. Versions 0.4.4 and 0.4.5 share a common foundation, both offering the ability to track which lines of your CoffeeScript code are executed during testing. This is achieved through dependencies like pkginfo for package information, argparse for command-line argument parsing, and crucially, coffee-script itself, ensuring compatibility with CoffeeScript versions 1.6.2 and above. Both versions also rely on mocha as a development dependency for testing the coverage tool itself. The core functionality of instrumenting CoffeeScript code remains consistent.
The key difference between versions 0.4.4 and 0.4.5 lies solely in their release date. Version 0.4.5 was published on February 26, 2015, while version 0.4.4 came out earlier on January 5, 2015. This suggests that version 0.4.5 likely contains bug fixes or minor improvements implemented since the previous release. Developers should always favor the latest stable version (0.4.5 in this case) to benefit from the most up-to-date and refined features and resolutions to potential issues. By using coffee-coverage, developers gain insights into their test suite's effectiveness, helping identify areas of code that lack sufficient testing and ultimately leading to more robust and reliable CoffeeScript applications.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.4.5 of the package
Arbitrary Code Execution in underscore
The package underscore from 1.13.0-0 and before 1.13.0-2, from 1.3.2 and before 1.12.1 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via the template function, particularly when a variable property is passed as an argument as it is not sanitized.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in underscore.string
Versions of underscore.string prior to 3.3.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).
The function unescapeHTML is vulnerable to ReDoS due to an overly-broad regex. The slowdown is approximately 2s for 50,000 characters but grows exponentially with larger inputs.
Upgrade to version 3.3.5 or higher.
