[DepShield] (CVSS 7.5) Vulnerability due to usage of hosted-git-info:2.8.8
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system, security
Research direction
Start by tracing the dependency chain from gulp 4.0.2 through gulp-cli and normalize-package-data to hosted-git-info 2.8.8. Confirm the dependency tree no longer resolves the vulnerable version and verify that the project’s build tooling still works; the payload does not name a manifest, lockfile, or test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Vulnerabilities
DepShield reports that this application's usage of hosted-git-info:2.8.8 results in the following vulnerability(s):
- (CVSS 7.5) CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
- (CVSS 5.3) [CVE-2021-23362] The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression De...
Occurrences
hosted-git-info:2.8.8 is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency(s):
• gulp:4.0.2
└─ gulp-cli:2.2.0
└─ yargs:7.1.0
└─ read-pkg-up:1.0.1
└─ read-pkg:1.1.0
└─ normalize-package-data:2.5.0
└─ hosted-git-info:2.8.8
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- Dominant language
- EJS
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
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First steps
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