npm package
micromatch 4.0.5 vulnerability, and the version that fixes it
micromatch 4.0.5 has 1 known vulnerability; 4.0.8 fixes it.
npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.”
- Known vulnerabilities
- 1
- None rated high or critical
- Released
- Mar 24, 2022
- Latest is 4.0.8
- Downloads last week
- 7.4M
- 5% of micromatch downloads
- Licence
- MIT
- Pulls in
- 5 packages
- Resolved by deps.dev
What to upgrade to
4.0.8 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.
4.0.8Upgrade to this
Fixes the known vulnerability and the newest 4.x release and the latest release. Released Aug 23, 2024.
No known vulnerabilities
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Findings
- WarningVulnerability
CVE-2024-4067 in micromatch 4.0.5
EPSS: top 28%Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in micromatch. Fixed in 4.0.8.
- LowOpenSSF Scorecard
micromatch/micromatch 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 micromatch 4.0.5
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.
WarningCVE-2024-4067 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-952p-6rrq-rcjvEPSS: top 28%
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in micromatch
Fixed in 4.0.8. Published May 14, 2024.
Who is still on a vulnerable micromatch
17% of last week’s 162.5M micromatch 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 micromatch 4.0.5, 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.