Some time ago GitHub has introduced an alternative version of Windows
virtual environment. One of those is possibly untested in this repo.
Let's test both of them.
Audit tasks and side tracks are still using "windows-latest" because we
don't particularly care about them. However, main tests should be run
against both versions.
You can find currently supported environments here:
https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/
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