Inquirer.js is a popular npm package designed to simplify the creation of interactive command-line interfaces. Version 0.1.11 builds upon version 0.1.9, offering developers an enhanced user experience for command-line tools. Examining the metadata, the core dependencies for both versions remain consistent, leveraging libraries like async, lodash, cli-color, and mute-stream to manage asynchronous operations, utility functions, terminal styling, and stream muting, respectively. This stable foundation ensures consistent functionality across the versions. Similarly, the development dependencies, including testing frameworks like chai, mocha, and sinon, build tools like grunt, and associated plugins, are identical, suggesting a consistent testing and build process.
The primary difference lies in the release date. Version 0.1.11 was published on July 6, 2013, approximately three weeks after version 0.1.9, released on June 15, 2013. This indicates that version 0.1.11 likely contains bug fixes, minor improvements, or small feature additions implemented during those three weeks. For developers, choosing the newer version (0.1.11) is generally recommended, as it benefits from the latest fixes and refinements. While the specific changes aren't detailed in the metadata, adopting the more recent release ensures a more stable and potentially more feature-rich experience when building interactive command-line applications. Developers should always prioritize newer versions when readily available.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.1.11 of the package
Prototype Pollution in lodash
Versions of lodash before 4.17.12 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The function defaultsDeep allows a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via {constructor: {prototype: {...}}} causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.
Update to version 4.17.12 or later.
Prototype Pollution in lodash
Versions of lodash before 4.17.5 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.
The vulnerable functions are 'defaultsDeep', 'merge', and 'mergeWith' which allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via __proto__ causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.
Update to version 4.17.5 or later.
Prototype Pollution in lodash
Versions of lodash before 4.17.11 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.
The vulnerable functions are 'defaultsDeep', 'merge', and 'mergeWith' which allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via {constructor: {prototype: {...}}} causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.
Update to version 4.17.11 or later.
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash
lodash prior to 4.7.11 is affected by: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: Date handler. The attack vector is: Attacker provides very long strings, which the library attempts to match using a regular expression. The fixed version is: 4.7.11.
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash
All versions of package lodash prior to 4.17.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions.
Steps to reproduce (provided by reporter Liyuan Chen):
var lo = require('lodash');
function build_blank(n) {
var ret = "1"
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
ret += " "
}
return ret + "1";
}
var s = build_blank(50000) var time0 = Date.now();
lo.trim(s)
var time_cost0 = Date.now() - time0;
console.log("time_cost0: " + time_cost0);
var time1 = Date.now();
lo.toNumber(s) var time_cost1 = Date.now() - time1;
console.log("time_cost1: " + time_cost1);
var time2 = Date.now();
lo.trimEnd(s);
var time_cost2 = Date.now() - time2;
console.log("time_cost2: " + time_cost2);
Command Injection in lodash
lodash versions prior to 4.17.21 are vulnerable to Command Injection via the template function.