Inquirer.js is a popular npm package that simplifies the creation of interactive command-line user interfaces, and versions 0.1.5 and 0.1.4 offer developers a powerful tool for building engaging CLI applications. Examining the evolution between these versions reveals subtle but important improvements that would interest developers.
Version 0.1.5 introduces new dependencies, notably "cli-color" and "mute-stream", which weren't present in version 0.1.4. This suggests enhancements in the areas of terminal output styling and control over stream interactions. "cli-color" likely allows developers to customize the appearance of prompts and responses with colors and styles within the command line, increasing the visual appeal of user interaction, which could enhance the usability and user experience of command-line tools built using the library. The inclusion of "mute-stream" could allow more granular control over terminal output during interactive operations, likely focused on the output of sensitive information (like passwords or API keys), ensuring that unwanted outputs from external processes are avoided.
While the core functionalities described as a collection of common interactive command line user interfaces remains consistent across versions, developers would appreciate how the new version provides better customization of styles. The rest of the dependencies and dev dependencies remain the same.
Both versions share the same licensing (MIT), repository information (GitHub), and author details with the same tools for contributing (grunt, mocha, sinon, proxyquire, etc). Developers choosing between these versions should evaluate their need for improved terminal styling and stream management made available on version 0.1.5 against the stability of the previous versions based on the release dates (less than 2 weeks of time difference).
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.1.5 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.