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nsp-except

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NSP, except

A library to help you only exclude the security vulnerabilities you really mean to.

Deprecated

NSP has been shut down, so nsp-except is now deprecated. Consider using npm audit, along with npm-audit-helper as an alternative.

Why

nsp is a very useful library that checks your project's dependencies against a database of known security vulnerabilities, so that you don't introduce your project to unnecessary risk.

Sometimes, nsp will warn you about an issue with one of your dependencies, but upon investigation you find that it does not affect your project. For example, you depend on the library fantastic-features, which uses a vulnerable version of the library great-lib. You take a look at the fantastic-features source code, and find that great-lib is only being used in the code for generating the fantastic-features documentation website.

nsp let's you specify an array of exceptions in your .nsprc file:

"exceptions"[
  "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/123"
]

You've now said you don't care if your project uses a vulnerable version of great-lib and nsp will stop reporting the issue. But what if someone adds great-lib to your project in a month's time? Or includes another-lib which also uses the vulnerable version of great-lib? nsp won't warn you about the exception and the security hole will get built into your app without you noticing.

nsp-except lets you specify the path to the advisory you wish to ignore, so you only ignore the vulnerability if it originates from fantastic-features.

Usage

Installation

$ npm install -g nsp-except

It's probably not a good idea to manage your exceptions in two different ways at the same time, so you'll want to remove the exceptions array from your .nsprc.

add

If you've discovered an advisory you'd like to ignore, run:

$ nsp-except add

This will create a .nsp-exceptions.json file at the root of your project with your exceptions. Please note that running nsp-except add will add all your current advisories to the file (it overwrites the file every time), so make sure that you really want to ignore each of your current advisories.

The .nsp-exceptions.json file will look something like this:

[
  {
    "id": 123,
    "advisory": "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/123",
    "path": [
      "fantastic-featurees@1.0.0",
      "great-lib@1.3.0"
    ]
  }
]

As you can see, you've only added an exception for the exact path to the advisory.

check

$ nsp-except check

Running nsp-except check will check your project against the nsp advisory database in the same way that nsp check does. The only difference is that it will take the exceptions in your .nsp-exceptions.json file into account.

Gotchas

  • Make sure you run the command from the root of your project, so it can find your package.json and .nsp-exceptions.json

License

MIT

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