[Snyk] Upgrade react-scripts from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3

[nejidevelops]

Snyk has created this PR to upgrade react-scripts from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

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• The recommended version is 2 versions ahead of your current version.

• The recommended version was released 4 years ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

	Issue	Score	Exploit Maturity
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-ASYNC-2441827	387	Proof of Concept
	Remote Memory Exposure SNYK-JS-DNSPACKET-1293563	387	No Known Exploit
	Improper Handling of Extra Parameters SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6141137	387	Proof of Concept
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-INI-1048974	387	Proof of Concept
	Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) SNYK-JS-IP-6240864	387	Proof of Concept
	Command Injection SNYK-JS-REACTDEVUTILS-1083268	387	Proof of Concept
	Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs SNYK-JS-BABELTRAVERSE-5962462	387	Proof of Concept
	Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860	387	No Known Exploit
	Improper Input Validation SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2407770	387	Proof of Concept
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-IMMER-1019369	387	Proof of Concept
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-EVENTSOURCE-2823375	387	Proof of Concept
	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509	387	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-7926867	387	No Known Exploit
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-2332181	387	Proof of Concept
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6444610	387	Proof of Concept
	Cross-site Scripting (XSS) SNYK-JS-COOKIE-8163060	387	No Known Exploit
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106	387	Proof of Concept
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-8482416	387	Proof of Concept
	Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2412697	387	Proof of Concept
	Improper Input Validation SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-1078283	387	No Known Exploit
	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-1533425	387	Proof of Concept
	Access Restriction Bypass SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2401205	387	Proof of Concept
	Authorization Bypass SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2407759	387	Proof of Concept
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-2396346	387	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SEND-7926862	387	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SERVESTATIC-7926865	387	No Known Exploit

Release notes

Package name: react-scripts

• 4.0.3 - 2021-02-22
• 4.0.2 - 2021-02-03
• 4.0.1 - 2020-11-23

from react-scripts GitHub release notes

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[gemini-code-assist]

Hello @nejidevelops, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

Summary of Changes

Hello team, gemini-code-assist here to provide a summary of this pull request. This PR was automatically generated by Snyk to upgrade the react-scripts dependency from version 4.0.1 to 4.0.3. The main motivation for this upgrade is to address a significant number of security vulnerabilities identified by Snyk in the current version, including critical, high, medium, and low severity issues. The changes involve updating the version specified in the package.json file.

Highlights

• Security Fixes: Addresses a total of 26 security vulnerabilities across various dependencies nested within react-scripts, including critical, high, medium, and low severity issues like Prototype Pollution, Remote Memory Exposure, SSRF, Command Injection, and XSS.
• Automated PR: This pull request was automatically created by Snyk to propose the dependency upgrade and associated security fixes.

Changelog

• package.json
  • Updated the react-scripts dependency version from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3.

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Code Review

This Snyk-initiated pull request to upgrade react-scripts from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3 is a valuable change. It addresses a significant number of security vulnerabilities, including critical and high-severity ones, as detailed in the PR description, enhancing the overall security of the project. The change itself is straightforward, updating the version in package.json. My primary recommendation is to ensure comprehensive testing before merging, as react-scripts is a critical build-time and development dependency.

Summary of Findings

• Security Vulnerabilities Addressed: This upgrade to [email protected] resolves numerous security vulnerabilities, some of which are rated as critical or high severity. Merging this change is a significant step towards improving the project's security posture.
• Importance of Thorough Testing: As react-scripts is a fundamental part of the React application's toolchain (handling build, development, and testing), thorough testing is crucial after this upgrade. This is to ensure no regressions or unexpected behaviors are introduced. This point was raised as a medium-severity review comment.

Merge Readiness

This pull request is highly recommended for merging due to the critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities it addresses by upgrading react-scripts. However, it is essential to conduct comprehensive testing of the application's build, development server, automated tests, and key functionalities to ensure full compatibility with [email protected] before finalizing the merge. Assuming all tests pass, this PR will significantly improve the project's security. As a reviewer, I am not authorized to approve pull requests; please ensure this change undergoes the necessary internal testing and approval process.

[gemini-code-assist]

This upgrade to [email protected] is important as it addresses several security vulnerabilities, including critical and high severity ones, as detailed in the PR description.

Given that react-scripts is a core dependency managing your build process, development server, and testing environment, could you please ensure that this upgrade is thoroughly tested before merging? This should ideally include:

• Verifying that the application builds successfully (e.g., npm run build or yarn build).
• Checking that the development server functions as expected (e.g., npm start or yarn start).
• Running the full test suite (e.g., npm test or yarn test) to catch any regressions.
• Manually testing critical user flows in a staging or development environment.

While this is a patch version upgrade (4.0.1 to 4.0.3), changes in react-scripts can sometimes introduce subtle impacts or incompatibilities. Confirming these aspects will help ensure a smooth transition and maintain application stability.