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minimist 0.0.3 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

minimist 0.0.3 has 2 known vulnerabilities (1 rated high or critical); 0.2.4 fixes all of them.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “parse argument options”

Known vulnerabilities
2
1 rated high or critical
Released
Sep 12, 2013
Latest is 1.2.8
Downloads last week
8.7K
Under 1% of minimist downloads
Licence
MIT
Dependencies
None
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

0.2.4 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 0.0.10

    Newest 0.0.x release. Released May 11, 2014.

    2 known vulnerabilities, worst rated warning

  • 0.2.4Upgrade to this

    Fixes all 2 known vulnerabilities. Released Feb 25, 2023.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 1.2.8

    Latest release. Released Feb 9, 2023.

    No known vulnerabilities

Hand the fix to your coding agent

One task with the upgrade, the file to change and why. Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

Findings

Every advisory for minimist 0.0.3

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-2021-44906 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-xvch-5gv4-984hEPSS: top 9%

    Prototype Pollution in minimist

    Fixed in 0.2.4. Published Mar 18, 2022.

  2. WarningCVE-2020-7598 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-vh95-rmgr-6w4mEPSS: top 21%

    Prototype Pollution in minimist

    Fixed in 0.2.1. Published Apr 3, 2020.

Who is still on a vulnerable minimist

8% of last week’s 170.6M minimist 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.

Is minimist the only one?

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly minimist 0.0.3, 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.