npm package
glob-parent 5.1.0 vulnerability, and the version that fixes it
glob-parent 5.1.0 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical); 5.1.2 fixes it.
npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Extract the non-magic parent path from a glob string.”
- Known vulnerabilities
- 1
- 1 rated high or critical
- Released
- Sep 21, 2019
- Latest is 6.0.2
- Downloads last week
- 351.4K
- Under 1% of glob-parent downloads
- Licence
- ISC
- Pulls in
- 2 packages
- Resolved by deps.dev
What to upgrade to
5.1.2 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.
5.1.2Upgrade to this
Fixes the known vulnerability and the newest 5.x release. Released Mar 6, 2021.
No known vulnerabilitiesLatest release. Released Sep 29, 2021.
No known vulnerabilities
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Findings
- CriticalVulnerability
CVE-2020-28469 in glob-parent 5.1.0
EPSS: top 9%glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex. Fixed in 5.1.2.
- LowOutdated
glob-parent 5.1.0 is 1 major version behind
Latest release is 6.0.2.
- LowOpenSSF Scorecard
gulpjs/glob-parent scores 3.7/10 on OpenSSF Scorecard
Weakest checks: Not actively maintained (Maintained 0/10); No branch protection (Branch-Protection 0/10); Over-privileged CI tokens (Token-Permissions 0/10). A low score means weaker upstream security practices, not a known vulnerability.
Every advisory for glob-parent 5.1.0
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.
CriticalCVE-2020-28469 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6EPSS: top 9%
glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex
Fixed in 5.1.2. Published Jun 7, 2021.
Who is still on a vulnerable glob-parent
0% of last week’s 326.1M glob-parent 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 glob-parent 5.1.0, 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.