Audit vulnerabilities detected in the gulpinstall project on Tag: v1.1.0

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

npm audit report

debug <=2.6.8 || 3.0.0 - 3.0.1 Regular Expression Denial of Service - https://npmjs.com/advisories/534 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install mocha@9.0.3, which is a breaking change node_modules/debug mocha 0.6.0 - 6.2.2 || 7.0.0-esm1 - 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of debug Depends on vulnerable versions of diff Depends on vulnerable versions of growl Depends on vulnerable versions of mkdirp node_modules/mocha

diff <3.5.0 Severity: high Regular Expression Denial of Service - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1631 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install mocha@9.0.3, which is a breaking change node_modules/diff mocha 0.6.0 - 6.2.2 || 7.0.0-esm1 - 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of debug Depends on vulnerable versions of diff Depends on vulnerable versions of growl Depends on vulnerable versions of mkdirp node_modules/mocha

dot-prop <4.2.1 || >=5.0.0 <5.1.1 Severity: high Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1213 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install standard-version@9.3.1, which is a breaking change node_modules/dot-prop compare-func <=1.3.4 Depends on vulnerable versions of dot-prop node_modules/compare-func conventional-changelog-angular 0.0.1 - 5.0.10 Depends on vulnerable versions of compare-func node_modules/conventional-changelog-angular conventional-changelog 1.0.0 - 2.0.3 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-angular Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-core Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-jshint node_modules/conventional-changelog standard-version <=5.0.2 || 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs node_modules/standard-version conventional-changelog-jshint <=2.0.7 Depends on vulnerable versions of compare-func node_modules/conventional-changelog-jshint conventional-changelog-writer <=4.0.16 Depends on vulnerable versions of compare-func Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer conventional-changelog-core <=4.2.1 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-writer Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-commits-parser Depends on vulnerable versions of git-raw-commits Depends on vulnerable versions of git-semver-tags node_modules/conventional-changelog-core

growl <1.10.2 Severity: critical Command Injection - https://npmjs.com/advisories/146 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install mocha@9.0.3, which is a breaking change node_modules/growl mocha 0.6.0 - 6.2.2 || 7.0.0-esm1 - 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of debug Depends on vulnerable versions of diff Depends on vulnerable versions of growl Depends on vulnerable versions of mkdirp node_modules/mocha

mem <4.0.0 Denial of Service - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1084 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install standard-version@9.3.1, which is a breaking change node_modules/mem os-locale 2.0.0 - 3.0.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of mem node_modules/os-locale yargs 4.0.0-alpha1 - 12.0.5 || 14.1.0 || 15.0.0 - 15.2.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of os-locale Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs-parser node_modules/yargs standard-version <=5.0.2 || 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs node_modules/standard-version

minimist <0.2.1 || >=1.0.0 <1.2.3 Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1179 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install mocha@9.0.3, which is a breaking change node_modules/mkdirp/node_modules/minimist mkdirp 0.4.1 - 0.5.1 Depends on vulnerable versions of minimist node_modules/mkdirp mocha 0.6.0 - 6.2.2 || 7.0.0-esm1 - 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of debug Depends on vulnerable versions of diff Depends on vulnerable versions of growl Depends on vulnerable versions of mkdirp node_modules/mocha

trim-newlines <3.0.1 || =4.0.0 Severity: high Regular Expression Denial of Service - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1753 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install xo@0.43.0, which is a breaking change node_modules/conventional-recommended-bump/node_modules/trim-newlines node_modules/get-pkg-repo/node_modules/trim-newlines node_modules/trim-newlines node_modules/xo/node_modules/trim-newlines meow 3.4.0 - 5.0.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of trim-newlines node_modules/conventional-recommended-bump/node_modules/meow node_modules/get-pkg-repo/node_modules/meow node_modules/meow node_modules/xo/node_modules/meow conventional-changelog-writer <=4.0.16 Depends on vulnerable versions of compare-func Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer conventional-changelog-core <=4.2.1 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-writer Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-commits-parser Depends on vulnerable versions of git-raw-commits Depends on vulnerable versions of git-semver-tags node_modules/conventional-changelog-core conventional-changelog 1.0.0 - 2.0.3 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-angular Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-core Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog-jshint node_modules/conventional-changelog standard-version <=5.0.2 || 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs node_modules/standard-version conventional-commits-parser 2.1.5 - 3.0.8 Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/conventional-commits-parser git-raw-commits 1.3.4 - 2.0.3 Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/git-raw-commits git-semver-tags 1.3.4 - 3.0.1 Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/git-semver-tags xo 0.10.0 - 0.32.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of meow node_modules/xo

yargs-parser <=13.1.1 || 14.0.0 - 15.0.0 || 16.0.0 - 18.1.1 Prototype Pollution - https://npmjs.com/advisories/1500 fix available via npm audit fix --force Will install standard-version@9.3.1, which is a breaking change node_modules/yargs-parser yargs 4.0.0-alpha1 - 12.0.5 || 14.1.0 || 15.0.0 - 15.2.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of os-locale Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs-parser node_modules/yargs standard-version <=5.0.2 || 7.1.0 Depends on vulnerable versions of conventional-changelog Depends on vulnerable versions of yargs node_modules/standard-version

24 vulnerabilities (7 low, 15 high, 2 critical)

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run: npm audit fix --force

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.