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Switch to safe-utf 7 to avoid vulnerability notifications
I've been working with this library recently for a personal project, and I'm hugely grateful for the work that's gone into it! The problem I ran into is that semver, a dependency of utf7 has a known vulnerability:
$ npm audit
# npm audit report
semver <5.7.2
Severity: moderate
semver vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2qf-rxjj-qqgw
fix available via `npm audit fix --force`
Will install [email protected], which is a breaking change
node_modules/semver
utf7 >=1.0.2
Depends on vulnerable versions of semver
node_modules/utf7
2 moderate severity vulnerabilities
To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
npm audit fix --force
Unfortunately, Konstantin, who created the utf7 library, never published the code on a public repository where a Pull request could be submitted. I've reached out to him directly, but in the meantime, I introduced https://github.com/alisonaquinas/node-safe-utf7 to resolve the issue.
got back to me and pointed me to https://github.com/kkaefer/utf7/, I've posted https://github.com/kkaefer/utf7/pull/15
I've not heard back from Konstantin despite my best efforts. He's not been merging PRs at all, given the state of other PRs and issues. My latest version removes the need for semver completely.
