Cross-env is a valuable npm package designed to streamline cross-platform environment variable management, enabling developers to define and utilize environment variables consistently across different operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux. Both versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 share the same core functionality: running commands while setting environment variables in a platform-agnostic manner. The primary dependencies, cross-spawn and lodash.assign, remain consistent, ensuring the underlying mechanisms for command execution and object manipulation are unchanged. Similarly, the suite of devDependencies used for testing, linting, and release management (including Chai, Mocha, ESLint, and Semantic Release) are identical, suggesting a stable development pipeline across both versions.
The key difference between version 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 lies in the release date. Version 2.0.1 was released on August 29, 2016, subsequent to version 2.0.0's release on July 13, 2016. This suggests that version 2.0.1 is likely a patch release, addressing minor bugs, documentation improvements, or dependency updates that didn't warrant a major or minor version bump. Developers considering using cross-env should opt for the latest version (2.0.1) to benefit from any potential fixes or enhancements. While the core functionality remains the same, newer versions generally offer a more refined and reliable experience. If encountering issues with 2.0.0, upgrading to 2.0.1 is a recommended troubleshooting step. Note that any bigger changes from version 1 to version 2 are already included in both versions.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.0.1 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
