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cross-spawn 2.2.0 vulnerability, and the version that fixes it

cross-spawn 2.2.0 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical); 6.0.6 fixes it.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Cross platform child_process#spawn and child_process#spawnSync”

Known vulnerabilities
1
1 rated high or critical
Released
Apr 6, 2016
Latest is 7.0.6
Downloads last week
28
Under 1% of cross-spawn downloads
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
3.2/10
indigounited/node-cross-spawn (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
19 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

6.0.6 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 2.2.3

    Newest 2.x release. Released Apr 13, 2016.

    1 known vulnerability, worst rated warning

  • 6.0.6Upgrade to this

    Fixes the known vulnerability. Released Nov 18, 2024.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 7.0.6

    Latest release. Released Nov 18, 2024.

    No known vulnerabilities

6.0.6 came out on Nov 18, 2024. A coding agent trained before then doesn’t know it exists, so it may suggest an older release. AI knowledge cutoff dates

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Findings

Every advisory for cross-spawn 2.2.0

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2024-21538 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275EPSS: top 43%

    Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

    Fixed in 6.0.6. Published Nov 8, 2024.

Who is still on a vulnerable cross-spawn

10% of last week’s 276.6M cross-spawn downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly cross-spawn 2.2.0, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.