[DepShield] (CVSS 7.5) Vulnerability due to usage of yargs-parser:5.0.0

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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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.