Audit vulnerabilities detected in the filesaver project on Tag: 2.0.4

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Issue: We detected vulnerable dependencies in your project by using the command “npm audit”:

npm audit report

glob-parent <5.1.2 Severity: moderate Regular expression denial of service - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1751 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/glob-parent chokidar 1.0.0-rc1 - 2.1.8 Depends on vulnerable versions of glob-parent node_modules/chokidar @babel/cli <=7.11.6 Depends on vulnerable versions of chokidar node_modules/@babel/cli

ini <1.3.6 Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1589 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/ini

kind-of 6.0.0 - 6.0.2 Validation Bypass - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1490 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/kind-of

lodash <=4.17.20 Severity: high Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1523 Command Injection - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1673 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/lodash

minimist <0.2.1 || >=1.0.0 <1.2.3 Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1179 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/minimist node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/rc/node_modules/minimist node_modules/json5/node_modules/minimist node_modules/minimist mkdirp 0.4.1 - 0.5.1 Depends on vulnerable versions of minimist node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/mkdirp node_modules/mkdirp

set-value <=2.0.0 || 3.0.0 Severity: high Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1012 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/set-value node_modules/union-value/node_modules/set-value union-value <=1.0.0 || 2.0.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of set-value node_modules/union-value

tar <=3.2.2 || 4.0.0 - 4.4.14 || 5.0.0 - 5.0.6 || 6.0.0 - 6.1.1 Severity: high Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite due to insufficient absolute path sanitization - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1770 Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite via insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1771 fix available via npm audit fix node_modules/fsevents/node_modules/tar

11 vulnerabilities (4 low, 3 moderate, 4 high)

To address all issues, run: npm audit fix

Questions: We are conducting a research study on vulnerable dependencies in open-source JS projects. We are curious:

1. Will you fix the vulnerabilities mentioned above? (Yes/No), and why?:
2. Do you have any additional comments? (If so, please write it down):

For any publication or research report based on this study, we will share all responses from developers in an anonymous way. Both your projects and personal information will be kept confidential.

Description: Many popular NPM packages have been found vulnerable and may carry significant risks [1]. Developers are recommended to monitor and avoid the vulnerable versions of the library. The vulnerabilities have been identified and reported by other developers, and their descriptions are available in the npm registry [2].

Steps to reproduce:

• Go to the root folder of the project where the package.json file located
• Execute “npm audit”
• Look at the list of vulnerabilities reported

Suggested Solution: Npm has introduced the “npm audit fix” command to fix the vulnerabilities. Execute the command to apply remediation to the dependency tree.

References:

2019. 10 npm Security Best Practices. https://snyk.io/blog/ten-npm-security-best-practices/.
2020. npm-audit. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-audit.