[@open-wc/eslint-config]: severity vulnerability in `trim-newlines`

[jarrodek]

Yesterday I started seeing audit reports like this:

                       === npm audit security report ===                        
                                                                                
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                Manual Review                                 │
│            Some vulnerabilities require your attention to resolve            │
│                                                                              │
│         Visit https://go.npm.me/audit-guide for additional guidance          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ High          │ Regular Expression Denial of Service                         │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Package       │ trim-newlines                                                │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Patched in    │ >=3.0.1 <4.0.0 || >=4.0.1                                    │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Dependency of │ @open-wc/eslint-config [dev]                                 │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Path          │ @open-wc/eslint-config > eslint-plugin-wc >                  │
│               │ validate-element-name > meow > trim-newlines                 │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ More info     │ https://npmjs.com/advisories/1753                            │
└───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
found 1 high severity vulnerability in 1162 scanned packages
  1 vulnerability requires manual review. See the full report for details.

If possible, please, update the dependency.

[stephenwade]

This vulnerability doesn't affect meow and therefore doesn't affect us. You don't need to worry about it. https://github.com/sindresorhus/meow/pull/185#issuecomment-856523895

Fixing the alert will depend on all the packages in the chain updating to a version that doesn't trigger it. meow and validate-element-name have already been updated, but they also are ESM-only packages now and I don't know if eslint-plugin-wc can move to ESM yet. If that happens then @open-wc/eslint-config can update and resolve the alert, but I don't know if it will happen soon.

[jarrodek]

I have to comply with organization standards and each alert like this means tons of messages from the info sec team to fix this and me explaining that this is a dev dependency and not really directly causing a vulnerability. It's not bad, but it is a pain :)

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