Inquirer.js is a popular npm package that provides a collection of interactive command-line user interfaces, simplifying the process of creating engaging and user-friendly CLI applications. Comparing version 0.8.0 with the previous stable version, 0.7.3, reveals subtle but important updates that developers should consider. The core dependencies remain identical in both versions, ensuring consistent functionality for essential features like RxJS for reactive programming, Chalk for colorful terminal output, Lodash for utility functions, Figures for Unicode symbols, Through for stream transformations, cli-color for terminal colors, Readline2 for advanced line reading, ansi-regex for removing ANSI escape codes, and mute-stream for silencing streams.
The crucial difference lies in the introduction of new fields in the package.json of version 0.8.0. This version includes the dist and releaseDate fields. dist offers direct access to the tarball URL on the npm registry, streamlining the download process for programmatic access. The releaseDate, providing a timestamp of when the version was published (2014-09-25T03:51:26.809Z), allowing developers to track updates and manage dependencies effectively. These additions enhance package managment. While the core functionalities remain the same, developers will appreciate the convenience and improved data accessibility offered by version 0.8.0. Both versions maintain the same development dependencies like Chai, Grunt, Mocha, and Sinon, suggesting that the testing and build processes haven't undergone significant changes.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.8.0 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.