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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by installing the latest CodeceptJS release and reproducing the shown npm audit report. Trace the cross-spawn dependency through child-process-promise, detox, and @codeceptjs/detox-helper; done means the high-severity vulnerability is resolved without introducing an unreviewed breaking change.

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Description

stale

I installed CodeceptJS at latest, then Node.js showed it has vulnerabirities. I audited and the result is:

# npm audit report

cross-spawn  <6.0.6
Severity: high
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275
fix available via `npm audit fix --force`
Will install codeceptjs@3.5.9, which is a breaking change
node_modules/child-process-promise/node_modules/cross-spawn
  child-process-promise  >=2.2.0
  Depends on vulnerable versions of cross-spawn
  node_modules/child-process-promise
    detox  >=4.1.1
    Depends on vulnerable versions of child-process-promise
    node_modules/detox
      @codeceptjs/detox-helper  *
      Depends on vulnerable versions of detox
      node_modules/@codeceptjs/detox-helper
        codeceptjs  2.2.1 || 3.5.1-2.beta.7 || >=3.5.10
        Depends on vulnerable versions of @codeceptjs/detox-helper
        node_modules/codeceptjs
Dominant language
JavaScript
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