Inquirer.js, a popular toolkit for building interactive command-line interfaces, saw a notable update with the release of version 0.2.0, building upon the foundation laid by its predecessor, version 0.1.12. Both versions share identical core dependencies, relying on libraries like async for asynchronous operations, lodash for utility functions, cli-color for colorful console output, and mute-stream for managing streams. Their development dependencies also align, incorporating chai, grunt, mocha, sinon, grunt-cli, proxyquire, grunt-release, grunt-simple-mocha, and grunt-contrib-jshint for testing, building, and linting. The license remains MIT for both, indicating permissive usage. The author and repository information also remain consistent, pointing to Simon Boudrias as the author and the Inquirer.js GitHub repository.
The key differentiator lies in the version numbers themselves, signaling an evolution of the library. While feature changes aren't explicitly detailed in the provided data, the jump from 0.1.12 to 0.2.0 suggests enhancements, bug fixes, or new functionalities were introduced. It's worth noting that version 0.2.0 was released on July 2nd, 2013, slightly earlier than version 0.1.12, released on July 6th, 2013. The discrepancy in release dates may indicate that version 0.2.0 was uploaded after 0.1.12. Developers considering Inquirer.js for their projects should investigate the specific changes documented in the release notes for version 0.2.0 to ascertain if the particular updates would be beneficial on implement it.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.2.0 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.