mafintosh / mafintosh/browserify-fs
Current version of the levelup dependency for this project has a known security vulnerability
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 188
- Forks
- 46
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
A user opened an issue on our repo about the semver package having a security vulnerability https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil/issues/568. After researching it we found that this was coming from a very old version of the levelup package that browserify-fs relies on.
Contributor guide
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue traces a semver vulnerability to an old levelup dependency used by browserify-fs. Start by inspecting the dependency manifest and levelup dependency chain, then review the linked security report. Done means the vulnerable transitive dependency is no longer present and dependency checks pass.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- security, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100