Formidable npm: Security Review and Safe Usage of the File-Upload Parser
A security review of the formidable npm package: the file-upload risks, the CVEs assigned against it, and how to configure it so uploads stay safe.
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A security review of the formidable npm package: the file-upload risks, the CVEs assigned against it, and how to configure it so uploads stay safe.
webpack-dev-middleware serves your bundle in development, but CVE-2024-29180 let a crafted URL read any file off a developer's machine. Here is the fix.
babel-jest npm sits in almost every Jest install, quietly transforming your code before tests run. Here is what it does and why test toolchains deserve supply chain attention.
The npm request package and its request-promise wrapper have been deprecated since February 2020. Here is what that means for your security posture and how to move off them safely.
react-slick is a hugely popular carousel component with no known CVEs, but slowing maintenance and its dependency chain are the risks worth watching before you adopt it.
The archiver npm package builds zip and tar streams cleanly, but the real risks are on the extraction side and in its dependency tree. Here is how to use it safely.
How to use react-md-editor safely: what @uiw/react-md-editor does, the XSS risk in markdown preview, and why rehype-sanitize is not optional for untrusted input.
The joi npm package is the widely used JavaScript schema validation library. Here is its maintenance status, the @hapi/joi migration, and how to use it safely.
The npm commander package is one of the most-downloaded CLI frameworks for Node. Here is a security-focused review of the library and how to use it safely.
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