Inquirer.js is a versatile npm package designed to streamline the creation of interactive command-line user interfaces. Versions 0.3.4 and 0.3.5 share a common foundation, offering developers tools for building engaging CLI experiences with features like prompts, confirmations, and list selections. Both versions depend on core utilities such as async for asynchronous control flow, lodash for general utility functions, cli-color for terminal styling, and mute-stream for managing stream output. Development dependencies remain consistent, including testing frameworks like chai, mocha, and sinon, alongside build tools like grunt and associated plugins. The MIT license and repository information also remain unchanged.
The key difference lies in the release dates and potentially bug fixes or minor enhancements introduced between version 0.3.4 (released September 26, 2013) and version 0.3.5 (released November 3, 2013). For developers choosing between these versions, 0.3.5 is generally preferable as it represents the slightly more recent and presumably more refined iteration, even if specific changes are not detailed in the provided metadata. When building CLI applications, features include prompt creation, data validation and conditional logic within the user interaction flow. Developers can leverage Inquirer.js to rapidly prototype and deploy interactive command-line tools, improving user experience and workflow efficiency. This small update is a good to use the most updated stable version available at the time (0.3.5).
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.3.5 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.