Questions tagged [minimist]

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CVE-2021-44906 Prototype Pollution in minimist

Github dependabot found potential security vulnerabilities in My dependencies. Minimist <=1.2.5 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via file index.js, function setKey() (lines 69-95). I don't know how to fix it. What should I do?
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Moderate severity vulnerabilities due to minimist

I'm running into a huge number of vulnerabilities. There are 583 vulnerabilities all associated with the package minimist My package.json is as such: { "name": "weather-wizard", "version": "0.1.0", "private": true, "proxy":…
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How to print usage help using minimist?

Here is a simple example from here, which shows the very basics of the minimist command line argument parser: var minimist = require('minimist') var args = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), { string: 'lang', // --lang xml boolean:…
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What's the JavaScript syntax after the require() call?

The following code is from the Node.js course I am following: var args = require("minimist")(process.argv.slice(2), { string: "name"}); I understand that a module is being imported, but I don't understand the second set of parentheses after the…
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Difficulty updating minimist with Angular 9

I've been doing an Angular 9 project for some time now. A while back, a warning popped up about a moderate security vulnarability with the minimist package. However, when I try to fix them with (sudo) npm audit fix, it can't fix these issues, and…
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Minimist vulnerability

We are facing critical vulnerability in minimist which is added as transitive dependency. +-- ember-cli@3.24.0 | +-- bower-config@1.4.3 | | `-- minimist@0.2.1 We tried to resolve this using couple of methods recommended on multiple forums but still…
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No strings Minimist Node JS

With Minimist what is used to write out a sentence like this? Name: Lea; Age: 22; Address: UserAdress So far I have tried with --name and --a. Hard to find information imo var argv = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(0,…
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Node.js minimist security issue even with v1.2.5

After installing express-handlebars and running "npm audit", I'm getting a "low severity vulnerability" warning for minimist. npm says: "Patched in >=0.2.1 <1.0.0 || >=1.2.3" https://npmjs.com/advisories/1179 So I upgraded to minimist v1.2.5 but I'm…
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passing string with spaces to node cli-parser

var minimist = require("minimist") const a = minimist(`executable --param "a b"`.split(' ')) console.log(a) https://runkit.com/embed/57837xcuv5v0 actual output: Object {_: ["executable", "b\""], param: "\"a"} expected output: Object {_:…
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Running the same code with different URL in testcafe

I am using minimist to run the same testcafe code for different env like a test, stage, Prod. however when the URL is hit it's saying 500 internal error. If I am hitting the Url without using minimist then it's working fine. Please tell me what am I…
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How to pass actual values to minimist instead of key-value?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimist For some keys I want to be able pass actual variables of them instead: $ node my_script.js --var1 a --var2 b --var3 c ===> $ node my_script.js --var1 a --b --var3 c $ node my_script.js --var1 a --b1 --var3 c $…
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Can't open VS Code on Ubuntu

Since today, I can't open vs code on both App shortcut and Terminal. When I try to run any command related to VS Code like code, code --version and etc. I get this error: Loading "minimist" failed Error: EIO: i/o error, read at Object.readSync…
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minimist failing in testcafe

I am using minimist to run different environment for my TestSuite using test cafe however i am facing some issues I have the following example.ts file import * as minimist from 'minimist'; const args = minimist(process.argv.slice(2)) const…
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How to fix webpack-pwa-manifest vulnerability?

How to fix webpack-pwa-manifest@4.2.0 and minimist vulnerability. I tried by deleting node/modules and package-lock.json and do a fresh npm install but I have the same issue, any feedback is really appreciated. Attached screenshots.
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Minimist js library not returning key-value pair

This is the code: var minimist = require('minimist') const args = minimist(process.argv.slice(2)) console.log(args) In the terminal, I type: npm start -a abc -b bbc $ npm start -a abc -b bbc { _: [ 'abc', 'bbc' ] } This is what I expected: { _:…
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