fix(security): update dependency ajv to v8.18.0 [security]

[erpranavjoshi]

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Fixes security vulnerability CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request focuses on enhancing the project's security posture by upgrading a critical dependency, ajv, to its latest stable version. This update specifically targets and resolves a known vulnerability, ensuring the application benefits from the most recent security patches and improvements in schema validation.

Highlights

• Dependency Update: The ajv package has been updated to version ^8.18.0 in package.json and 8.18.0 in package-lock.json to address a reported vulnerability.
• Dependency Resolution: Transitive dependencies in package-lock.json were adjusted, including the addition of ajv under @verdaccio/core/node_modules and the removal of unused babel-plugin-macros and cosmiconfig entries.

Changelog

• package-lock.json
  • Updated the ajv package version to 8.18.0.
  • Added a new ajv entry under node_modules/@verdaccio/core/node_modules with version 8.17.1.
  • Removed babel-plugin-macros and cosmiconfig entries from node_modules/jest-circus/node_modules and jest-runner/node_modules sections.
  • Updated the top-level ajv entry to 8.18.0.
  • Added ajv as a dependency under node_modules/@verdaccio/core/node_modules.
• package.json
  • Updated the ajv dependency from ^8.12.0 to ^8.18.0.

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Code Review

This pull request updates ajv to version 8.18.0 to address a vulnerability. The update to the direct dependency in package.json is correct. However, the changes to package-lock.json reveal that a transitive dependency is still pulling in an older version of ajv (8.17.1). My review includes a comment to address this by using npm's overrides feature to ensure the vulnerability is patched throughout the project's dependency tree.

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This change introduces an older version of ajv (8.17.1) as a transitive dependency via @verdaccio/core. Since this PR aims to fix a vulnerability in ajv, it's important to ensure all instances of the package are updated. To resolve this, you can add an overrides block to your package.json to force ajv to the desired version across all dependencies.

For example, in package.json:

"overrides": {
  "ajv": "^8.18.0"
}

After adding this, you will need to run npm install again to update the package-lock.json file accordingly.