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[Security] Bump micromatch from 4.0.7 to 4.0.8

Dependabot requested to merge dependabot-npm_and_yarn-micromatch-4.0.8 into master

Bumps micromatch from 4.0.7 to 4.0.8. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in micromatch The NPM package micromatch is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). The vulnerability occurs in micromatch.braces() in index.js because the pattern .* will greedily match anything. By passing a malicious payload, the pattern matching will keep backtracking to the input while it doesn't find the closing bracket. As the input size increases, the consumption time will also increase until it causes the application to hang or slow down. There was a merged fix but further testing shows the issue persists. This issue should be mitigated by using a safe pattern that won't start backtracking the regular expression due to greedy matching.

Patched versions: 4.0.8 Affected versions: < 4.0.8

Changelog

Sourced from micromatch's changelog.

[4.0.8] - 2024-08-22

  • backported CVE-2024-4067 fix (from v4.0.6) over to 4.x branch
Commits
  • 8bd704e 4.0.8
  • a0e6841 run verb to generate README documentation
  • 4ec2884 Merge branch 'v4' into hauserkristof-feature/v4.0.8
  • 03aa805 Merge pull request #266 from hauserkristof/feature/v4.0.8
  • 814f5f7 lint
  • 67fcce6 fix: CHANGELOG about braces & CVE-2024-4068, v4.0.5
  • 113f2e3 fix: CVE numbers in CHANGELOG
  • d9dbd9a feat: updated CHANGELOG
  • 2ab1315 fix: use actions/setup-node@v4
  • 1406ea3 feat: rework test to work on macos with node 10,12 and 14
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