[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
	Improper Input Validation SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2407770	265	Proof of Concept
	Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860	265	No Known Exploit
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-ASYNC-2441827	265	Proof of Concept
	Remote Memory Exposure SNYK-JS-DNSPACKET-1293563	265	No Known Exploit
	Improper Handling of Extra Parameters SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6141137	265	Proof of Concept
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-IMMER-1019369	265	Proof of Concept
	Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) SNYK-JS-IP-6240864	265	Proof of Concept
	Improper Input Validation SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-1078283	265	No Known Exploit
	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-1533425	265	Proof of Concept
	Access Restriction Bypass SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2401205	265	Proof of Concept
	Authorization Bypass SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2407759	265	Proof of Concept
	Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key SNYK-JS-URLPARSE-2412697	265	Proof of Concept
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6444610	265	Proof of Concept
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106	265	Proof of Concept
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-8482416	265	Proof of Concept
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-EVENTSOURCE-2823375	265	Proof of Concept
	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509	265	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-7926867	265	No Known Exploit
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-2332181	265	Proof of Concept
	Cross-site Scripting (XSS) SNYK-JS-COOKIE-8163060	265	No Known Exploit
	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-2396346	265	No Known Exploit
	Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs SNYK-JS-BABELTRAVERSE-5962462	265	Proof of Concept
	Command Injection SNYK-JS-REACTDEVUTILS-1083268	265	Proof of Concept
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SEND-7926862	265	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SERVESTATIC-7926865	265	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]

Summary of Changes

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!

This pull request, automatically generated by Snyk, aims to enhance the project's security posture by updating a core dependency. The primary goal is to patch a wide array of identified vulnerabilities, ranging from critical to low severity, thereby improving the overall stability and security of the application.

Highlights

• Dependency Upgrade: Upgraded the react-scripts package from version 4.0.1 to 4.0.3.
• Security Vulnerability Resolution: This upgrade addresses a comprehensive list of security vulnerabilities identified by Snyk, including one critical, several high, and numerous medium and low severity issues. These fixes cover various types of vulnerabilities such as Prototype Pollution, Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF), Cross-site Scripting (XSS), Command Injection, and Improper Input Validation, among others.

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request, automatically generated by Snyk, proposes an upgrade of the react-scripts dependency from version 4.0.1 to 4.0.3. This is a beneficial change as it addresses a significant number of security vulnerabilities, including several high-severity and one critical-severity issue, as detailed in the pull request description.

My review includes one comment on the package.json modification. While the upgrade to 4.0.3 is recommended for immediate vulnerability mitigation, I've highlighted that react-scripts 4.x is an older major version. I've advised planning a future upgrade to react-scripts 5.x to ensure long-term project health, security, and access to modern features.

Overall, this PR is a valuable security update and should be merged. The subsequent upgrade to 5.x should be considered a high-priority follow-up task.

[gemini-code-assist]

This upgrade to [email protected] is a positive and necessary step to address the listed security vulnerabilities.

However, it's important to note that react-scripts version 4.0.3 was released in February 2021, making the 4.x series quite dated. The current stable major version is 5.x, which offers more comprehensive updates and support.

Recommendation for Future Action:
While this PR should be merged to apply these immediate security patches, please consider planning a subsequent upgrade to react-scripts 5.x. Migrating to 5.x will provide:

• More up-to-date security fixes.
• Support for newer underlying tools (e.g., Webpack 5, PostCSS 8, ESLint 8).
• Access to improved features, performance optimizations, and better compatibility with the modern JavaScript ecosystem.

Continuing with react-scripts 4.x long-term may lead to challenges with newer Node.js versions, other dependencies, and potentially leave other vulnerabilities unaddressed.