Package Health Score

87 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Sustainable

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
3.0.1	\|	06/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.1.1	\|	02/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.7.1	\|	02/2023	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.6.0	\|	01/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.5.0	\|	04/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

Apache-2.0

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (717,586)

GitHub Stars: 2.23K
Forks: 109
Contributors: 40

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package eslint-plugin-security receives a total of 717,586 downloads a week. As such, we scored eslint-plugin-security popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package eslint-plugin-security, we found that it has been starred 2,226 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 40
Funding: Yes

With more than 10 contributors for the eslint-plugin-security repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 8
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 6 months ago
Last Commit: 2 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of eslint-plugin-security based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that eslint-plugin-security demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: ^18.18.0 || ^20.9.0 || >=21.1.0

Age: 9 years
Dependencies: 1 Direct
Versions: 15
Install Size: 140 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 70
Maintainers: 3
TS Typings: No

eslint-plugin-security has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

eslint-plugin-security

ESLint rules for Node Security

This project will help identify potential security hotspots, but finds a lot of false positives which need triage by a human.

Installation

npm install --save-dev eslint-plugin-security

yarn add --dev eslint-plugin-security

Usage

Flat config (requires eslint >= v8.23.0)

Add the following to your eslint.config.js file:

const pluginSecurity = require('eslint-plugin-security');

module.exports = [pluginSecurity.configs.recommended];

eslintrc config (deprecated)

Add the following to your .eslintrc file:

module.exports = {
  extends: ['plugin:security/recommended-legacy'],
};

Developer guide

Use GitHub pull requests.
Conventions:
We use our custom ESLint setup.
Please implement a test for each new rule and use this command to be sure the new code respects the style guide and the tests keep passing:

npm run-script cont-int

Tests

npm test

Rules

⚠️ Configurations set to warn in.
✅ Set in the recommended configuration.

Name	Description	⚠️
detect-bidi-characters	Detects trojan source attacks that employ unicode bidi attacks to inject malicious code.	✅
detect-buffer-noassert	Detects calls to "buffer" with "noAssert" flag set.	✅
detect-child-process	Detects instances of "child_process" & non-literal "exec()" calls.	✅
detect-disable-mustache-escape	Detects "object.escapeMarkup = false", which can be used with some template engines to disable escaping of HTML entities.	✅
detect-eval-with-expression	Detects "eval(variable)" which can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code inside your process.	✅
detect-new-buffer	Detects instances of new Buffer(argument) where argument is any non-literal value.	✅
detect-no-csrf-before-method-override	Detects Express "csrf" middleware setup before "method-override" middleware.	✅
detect-non-literal-fs-filename	Detects variable in filename argument of "fs" calls, which might allow an attacker to access anything on your system.	✅
detect-non-literal-regexp	Detects "RegExp(variable)", which might allow an attacker to DOS your server with a long-running regular expression.	✅
detect-non-literal-require	Detects "require(variable)", which might allow an attacker to load and run arbitrary code, or access arbitrary files on disk.	✅
detect-object-injection	Detects "variable[key]" as a left- or right-hand assignment operand.	✅
detect-possible-timing-attacks	Detects insecure comparisons (`==`, `!=`, `!==` and `===`), which check input sequentially.	✅
detect-pseudoRandomBytes	Detects if "pseudoRandomBytes()" is in use, which might not give you the randomness you need and expect.	✅
detect-unsafe-regex	Detects potentially unsafe regular expressions, which may take a very long time to run, blocking the event loop.	✅

TypeScript support

Type definitions for this package are managed by DefinitelyTyped. Use @types/eslint-plugin-security for type checking.

npm install --save-dev @types/eslint-plugin-security

# OR

yarn add --dev @types/eslint-plugin-security

eslint-plugin-security dependencies

safe-regex

eslint-plugin-security development dependencies

@eslint/js changelog eslint eslint-config-nodesecurity eslint-config-prettier eslint-doc-generator eslint-plugin-eslint-plugin lint-staged markdownlint-cli mocha npm-run-all prettier semantic-release yorkie

FAQs

What is eslint-plugin-security?

Security rules for eslint. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for eslint-plugin-security, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is eslint-plugin-security popular?

The npm package eslint-plugin-security receives a total of 717,586 weekly downloads. As such, eslint-plugin-security popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is eslint-plugin-security well maintained?

We found that eslint-plugin-security demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 40 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is eslint-plugin-security safe to use?

The npm package eslint-plugin-security was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 21 December-2024, at 06:59 (UTC).

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