[DepShield] (CVSS 7.5) Vulnerability due to usage of hosted-git-info:2.8.8

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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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.