* Update glob-parent to resolve CVE-2020-28469
* Run audit tasks on Ubuntu runners (they are cheaper)
* Audit only production dependencies
That is, something that can actually affect users of this action.
I don't really want to be bothered with yet another "prototype pollution"
or "denial of service" in transitive dependencies of eslint.
* Audit dev-dependencies for critical vulnerabilities
That said, still audit development dependencies for critical
vulnerabilities if they come along. Hopefully, this should be rare.
Set the threshold to "moderate" and above. Currently msvc-dev-cmd has
an issue in transitive dev-dependency "minimist" [1] via somewhat long
chain of dependencies:
- eslint > file-entry-cache > flat-cache > write > mkdirp > minimist
- eslint > mkdirp > minimist
In order for this to be resolved all these packages need to do something
about their pinned versions. I don't want to sit there with a red build
because of some possible low-severity prototype pollution in dev
dependency. Anything higher -- okay, I'll look at at, and apply a fix
if necessary. (Maybe we should not audit dev dependencies at all...)
This particular vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker who can
submit a pull request and do "something bad"™ to Actions runners
executing jobs for this repository. However, since it's a dev
dependency, nothing will happen to our users. So we can safely ignore
this advisory.
[1]: https://npmjs.com/advisories/1179
I'd like to be notified about weird vulnerabilities in JavaScript
libraries for the release branch as well. It's double important
since the release branch ships particular pinned version of *all*
dependencies.
Alexei Lozovsky
Ewout ter Hoeven