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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade winston from 3.2.1 to 3.18.3.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

  • The recommended version is 31 versions ahead of your current version.

  • The recommended version was released 21 days ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

Issue Score Exploit Maturity
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-AJV-584908		 405 No Known Exploit
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-ASYNC-2441827		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-AWSSDK-1059424		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Code Injection
SNYK-JS-LODASH-1040724		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-LODASH-450202		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-LODASH-567746		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-LODASH-608086		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-LODASH-6139239		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Poisoning
SNYK-JS-QS-3153490		 405 Proof of Concept
high severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795		 405 Proof of Concept
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-COLORSTRING-1082939		 405 Proof of Concept
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-LODASH-1018905		 405 Proof of Concept
medium severity Prototype Pollution
SNYK-JS-XML2JS-5414874		 405 Proof of Concept
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This pull request significantly enhances the project's security posture by updating the winston logging library to its latest stable version. This crucial dependency upgrade addresses a wide array of known vulnerabilities, ensuring the application remains protected against potential exploits and maintains a robust security profile.

Highlights

  • Dependency Upgrade: The winston logging library has been upgraded from version 3.2.1 to 3.18.3, spanning 31 minor versions.
  • Security Fixes: This upgrade resolves numerous high and medium severity vulnerabilities, including Prototype Pollution, Code Injection, Prototype Poisoning, and Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) found in winston and its transitive dependencies like ajv, async, aws-sdk, lodash, qs, semver, color-string, and xml2js.
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This pull request upgrades the winston dependency from version 3.2.1 to 3.18.3. This upgrade addresses multiple high and medium severity vulnerabilities, including prototype pollution, code injection, and regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

course-04/project/c4-final-project-starter-code/backend/package.json
"source-map-support": "^0.5.11",
"uuid": "^3.3.2",
"winston": "^3.2.1"
"winston": "^3.18.3"
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Upgrading winston resolves several high and medium severity vulnerabilities as outlined in the PR description. This is a critical update for application security. Ensure thorough testing after the upgrade.

List of vulnerabilities addressed:

  • Prototype Pollution
  • Code Injection
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Suggested change
"winston": "^3.18.3"
"winston": "^3.18.3" # Use ^ to allow minor updates and patch releases

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