Upgrade your yarn version in order to rectify any yarn audit errors

Currently, there doesn't seem to be a yarn audit --fix command available. Thus, I am exploring different approaches to resolve the errors detected in my yarn audit.

While executing a yarn upgrade, some of the errors were successfully addressed, but a few still persist.

Upon using yarn add <package>@latest for the remaining vulnerabilities classified as high, it updated the version in my package.json. However, my suspicion is that these errors originate from dependencies used by a package.

Below are examples of the errors that have not yet been resolved:

┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ high          │ Regular Expression Denial of Service                         │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Package       │ minimatch                                                    │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Patched in    │ >=3.0.2                                                      │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Dependency of │ gulp                                                         │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Path          │ gulp > vinyl-fs > glob-stream > glob > minimatch             │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ More info     │ https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/118                       │
└───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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(Additional error information)
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Answer №1

When facing a problem with dependencies in yarn, one solution is to utilize what is known as selective version resolutions. This involves specifying resolutions for the transitive dependencies within the package.json.

Transitive dependencies refer to the dependencies of dependencies.

{
   "resolutions": { "**/**/lodash": "^4.17.12" }
}

Even if lodash is not directly listed as a dependency in your package, the dependent package within your package will use the version defined in the resolutions. It is also possible to provide specific resolutions. For further details, visit here.

Answer №2

Although relying on resolutions can be effective, it may not always be the best approach for several reasons:

  • Your package.json file becomes cluttered with resolutions for transitive dependencies.
  • You risk overriding the required version with a version you think will work. For example, if A depends on B@^4.0.0 and you update B to resolve to ^4.3.2, but later A requires 
    B@^5.0.0</code, your resolution of <code>^4.3.2
    may no longer be compatible.

Here is an alternative method for updating transitive dependencies:

  1. Delete the entry for the dependency you want to update from yarn.lock.
  2. Run yarn install.

This forces yarn to re-resolve the dependency, often resulting in the installation of a newer version of the deleted dependency from yarn.lock.

For example: Let's say you need to update the vulnerable 

<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="92fffbfcfbfffbe1e6d2a2bca2bcaa">[email protected]</a>
. In this case, you would remove an entry like this from your yarn.lock:

<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5c8cccbccc8ccd6d1e5958b958b9">[email protected]</a>:
  version "0.0.8"
  resolved "http://10.0.0.1/repository/npm-registry/minimist/-/minimist-0.0.8.tgz#857fcabfc3397d2625b8228262e86aa7a011b05d"
  integrity sha1-hX/Kv8M5fSYluCKCYuhqp6ARsF0=

Then proceed to run yarn install.

If this approach does not yield results:

Try targeting dependencies higher up in the dependency chain:

  1. Use yarn why <dependency> to identify packages pulling the dependency.
  2. Delete the parent dependency in yarn.lock and run yarn install.

For example:

Consider a scenario where we update a transitive dependency called minimist:

$ yarn why minimist
.....
=> Found "mkdirp#<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b363235323632282f1b6b756b7563">[email protected]</a>"
info This module exists because "eslint#mkdirp" depends on it.
=> Found "optimist#<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5e3337303733372d2a1e6e706e706f6e">[email protected]</a>"
info This module exists because "jest#jest-cli#@jest#core#@jest#reporters#istanbul-reports#handlebars#optimist" depends on it.
.....
  1. Delete all entries related to minimist from yarn.lock and execute yarn install - when this doesn't yield the desired outcome due to dependencies requiring specific versions such as 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c0ada9aea9ada9b3b480f0eef0eef8">[email protected]</a>
    and 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="94f9fdfafdf9fde7e0d4a4baa4baa5a4">[email protected]</a>
  2. Delete immediate parents of minimist from yarn.lock: mkdirp and optimist.
  3. Run yarn install.

  4. Rerun yarn why minimist:

    $ yarn why minimist
.....
=> Found "mkdirp#<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5c8cccbccc8ccd6d1e5948b978b90">[email protected]</a>"
info This module exists because "eslint#mkdirp" depends on it.
=> Found "optimist#<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f2226212622263c3b0f7f617f617e7f">[email protected]</a>"
info This module exists because "jest#jest-cli#@jest#core#@jest#reporters#isanbul-reports#handlebars#more_on_optimist" depends on it.
.....

    Observing that 

    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f79a9e999e9a9e8483b7c7d9c7d9cf">[email protected]</a>
    has been updated to 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f4246414642465c5b6f1e011d011a">[email protected]</a>
    , while 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8fe2e6e1e6e2e6fcfbcfbfa1bfa1bebf">[email protected]</a>
    remains.

  5. Delete the next dependency in the chain from yarn.lock: handlebars

  6. Proceed with yarn install.
  7. Rerun yarn why minimist - status quo remains, 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1ccc8cfc8ccc8d2d5e1918f918f9091">[email protected]</a>
    persists.
  8. Delete the following dependency in the chain from yarn.lock: istanbul-reports
  9. Execute yarn install.
  10. Rerun yarn why minimist: 
    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="adc0c4c3c4c0c4ded9ed9d839d839c9d">[email protected]</a>
    has disappeared now after updating istanbul-reports.

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