[DepShield] (CVSS 7.5) Vulnerability due to usage of yargs-parser:5.0.0
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system, security
Research direction
Start by reviewing the dependency declaration for gulp and the reported chain through gulp-cli and yargs to locate how yargs-parser 5.0.0 is resolved. Update the dependency path to remove the listed vulnerabilities, then verify that dependency installation and the existing gulp workflow still succeed.
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Description
Vulnerabilities
DepShield reports that this application's usage of yargs-parser:5.0.0 results in the following vulnerability(s):
- (CVSS 7.5) CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
- (CVSS 7.5) [CVE-2020-7608] yargs-parser could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prot...
Occurrences
yargs-parser:5.0.0 is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency(s):
• gulp:4.0.2
└─ gulp-cli:2.2.0
└─ yargs:7.1.0
└─ yargs-parser:5.0.0
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- Dominant language
- EJS
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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