Send is a Node.js module designed for efficiently serving static files with built-in support for Range requests and conditional-GETs, enhancing web application performance and user experience. Comparing versions 0.14.0 and 0.14.1, the core functionalities remain consistent, focusing on better streaming static file serving. Both versions share the same dependencies, including ms for human-readable time, depd for deprecated feature warnings, etag for cache validation, mime for content-type detection, debug for logging, fresh for HTTP cache freshness testing, destroy for stream cleanup, statuses for HTTP status code handling, escape-html for security, http-errors for creating HTTP errors, on-finished for executing a callback when a request completes, and range-parser for handling Range headers. Development dependencies also remain identical, ensuring consistent testing and linting environments using tools like mocha, eslint, istanbul, and supertest.
The primary difference between the versions lies in the encodeurl dependency, present in 0.14.1. While not explicitly stated, its addition likely addresses URL encoding edge cases or potential vulnerabilities, improving the module's robustness. This update, though seemingly minor, contributes to a more secure and reliable static file serving experience. Consider upgrading to version 0.14.1 for the latest refinements and potentially enhanced security. Both versions are licensed under MIT, feature the same author TJ Holowaychuk, and are housed in the pillarjs/send repository on GitHub. The release dates signify rapid iteration, with 0.14.1 following shortly after 0.14.0, implying a quick fix or improvement.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.14.1 of the package
send vulnerable to template injection that can lead to XSS
passing untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to SendStream.redirect() may execute untrusted code
this issue is patched in send 0.19.0
users are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version of express, but otherwise can workaround this issue by making sure any untrusted inputs are safe, ideally by validating them against an explicit allowlist
successful exploitation of this vector requires the following:
Vercel ms Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vercel ms up to 1.x. This issue affects the function parse of the file index.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217451.
mime Regular Expression Denial of Service when MIME lookup performed on untrusted user input
Affected versions of mime are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when a mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input.
Update to version 2.0.3 or later.
debug Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in debug-js debug up to 3.0.x. This affects the function useColors of the file src/node.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 3.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is c38a0166c266a679c8de012d4eaccec3f944e685. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-217665 was assigned to this vulnerability. The patch has been backported to the 2.6.x branch in version 2.6.9.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
Affected versions of debug are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter.
As it takes 50,000 characters to block the event loop for 2 seconds, this issue is a low severity issue.
This was later re-introduced in version v3.2.0, and then repatched in versions 3.2.7 and 4.3.1.
Version 2.x.x: Update to version 2.6.9 or later. Version 3.1.x: Update to version 3.1.0 or later. Version 3.2.x: Update to version 3.2.7 or later. Version 4.x.x: Update to version 4.3.1 or later.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in fresh
Affected versions of fresh are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing specially crafted user input.
Update to version 0.5.2 or later.
