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Improvements to JavaScript analysis
General improvements
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Support for the following frameworks and libraries has been improved:
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The security queries now track data flow through Base64 decoders such as the Node.js
Bufferclass, the DOM functionatob, and a number of npm packages intcludingabab,atob,btoa,base-64,js-base64,Base64.jsandbase64-js.
New queries
| Query | Tags | Purpose |
|---|
Changes to existing queries
| Query | Expected impact | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Arbitrary file write during zip extraction ("Zip Slip") | More results | This rule now considers more libraries, including tar as well as zip. |
| Client-side URL redirect | More results and fewer false-positive results | This rule now recognizes additional uses of the document URL. This rule now treats URLs as safe in more cases where the hostname cannot be tampered with. |
| Double escaping or unescaping | More results | This rule now considers the flow of regular expressions literals. |
| Expression has no effect | Fewer false-positive results | This rule now treats uses of Object.defineProperty more conservatively. |
| Incomplete string escaping or encoding | More results | This rule now considers the flow of regular expressions literals. |
| Replacement of a substring with itself | More results | This rule now considers the flow of regular expressions literals. |
| Server-side URL redirect | Fewer false-positive results | This rule now treats URLs as safe in more cases where the hostname cannot be tampered with. |
| Type confusion through parameter tampering | Fewer false-positive results | This rule now recognizes additional emptiness checks. |
| Useless assignment to property | Fewer false-positive results | This rule now ignore reads of additional getters. |
Changes to QL libraries
RegExpLiteralis now aDataFlow::SourceNode.