Better NPM Audit

Forked from jeemok/better-npm-audit. This fork adds additional features and is actively maintained.

NPM version 6 and 7, and 8

NPM has upgraded to version 7 in late 2020 and has breaking changes on the npm audit. The output of npm audit has significantly changed both in the human-readable and --json output styles. Even more unfortunately, when NPM changed the JSON output in npm v7, they removed many of the other useful identifiers (cves, cwe, github_advisory_id) and the only thing left is the URL. We are trying our best to handle each version and provide consistent functionality to all of them. Related docs on v6 and v7 changes:

Docs	Link
NPM v6 & v7 changes	https://github.blog/2020-10-13-presenting-v7-0-0-of-the-npm-cli/
NPM v7 blog post	https://blog.npmjs.org/post/626173315965468672/npm-v7-series-beta-release-and-semver-major
Official NPM v6 audit docs	https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6/commands/npm-audit
Official NPM v7 audit docs	https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-audit
Dealing with new npm audit	https://uko.codes/dealing-with-npm-v7-audit-changes

You may find the sample JSON outputs for each NPM versions in our codebase: v6, v7 & v8.

Installation

$ npm install --save @whittjs/better-npm-audit

or

$ npm install -g @whittjs/better-npm-audit

Usage

Run global

better-npm-audit audit

Run with exceptions

Unhandled or newly reported vulnerabilities will be highlighted:

Unused exceptions will be notified:

Add into package scripts

{
  "scripts": {
    "prepush": "npm run test && npm run audit",
    "audit": "better-npm-audit audit"
  }
}

Now you can run locally or in your CI pipeline:

npm run audit

Filter vulnerability table

You can filter the vulnerability table to show only vulnerabilities at or above a specified severity level using the --filter-table flag. This is useful for reducing noise in the output while maintaining the original audit behavior for exit codes.

# Filter table to show only high and critical vulnerabilities
better-npm-audit audit --filter-table high

# Filter table to match the audit level
better-npm-audit audit --level moderate --filter-table

# Set different levels for exit behavior vs table display
better-npm-audit audit --level high --filter-table moderate

Note: The --filter-table flag only affects what vulnerabilities are displayed in the table. The audit level (--level) still controls the exit behavior and vulnerability counting.

Options

Flag	Short	Description
--exclude	-x	Exceptions or the vulnerabilities ID(s) to exclude; the ID can be the numeric ID, CVE, CWE or GHSA ID
--module-ignore	-m	Names of modules to exclude
--level	-l	The minimum audit level to validate; Same as the original --audit-level flag
--filter-table	-f	Filter the vulnerability table to show only vulnerabilities at or above the specified level. Accepts a level (info, low, moderate, high, critical) or can be used as a boolean flag to filter by the audit level
--production	-p	Skip the devDependencies
--registry	-r	The npm registry url to use
--include-columns	-i	Columns to include in report. Available columns: ID, Module, Title, Paths, Severity, URL, Ex., Fix (e.g. -i Module,Title,Severity)

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
NO_COLOR	Support the no-color standard to allow users use the tool without colored output.
NPM_CONFIG_AUDIT_LEVEL	Used in setting the audit level. Note: this will be disregard if the audit level flag is passed onto the command.

Using .nsprc file to manage exceptions

You may add a file .nsprc to your project root directory to manage the exceptions. For example:

{
  "1337": {
    "active": true,
    "notes": "Ignored since we don't use xxx method",
    "expiry": 1615462134681
  },
  "4501": {
    "active": false,
    "notes": "Ignored since we don't use xxx method"
  },
  "CWE-471": "CWE ID is acceptable",
  "GHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6": "GHSA ID is acceptable",
  "https://npmjs.com/advisories/1213": "Full or partial URL is acceptable too"
}

Fields

Attribute	Type	Description	Default	Examples
active	Boolean	If the tool should use it for exception	true	true
expiry	String | Number	Human-readable date, or milliseconds since the UNIX Epoch		- '2020-01-31' - '2020/01/31' - '01/31/2021, 11:03:58' - '1 March 2016 15:00' - '1 March 2016 3:00 pm' - '2012-01-26T13:51:50.417-07:00' - 'Sun, 11 Jul 2021 03:03:13 GMT' - 'Thu Jan 26 2017 11:00:00 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)' - 327611110417
notes	String	Notes related to the vulnerability.

When using a .nsprc file, a report will be displayed when it starts running:

Note: the expiry date will be styled in yellow and red color if it is detected more than one or five years ago.

Changelog

You can find the changelog here.

Contributors

Ian Wright, Edwin Taylor, Maarten Hus, Alex Burkowsky, David M. Lee, Kyle Clark, Guillermo Pincay, Grzegorz Pawłowski, CSLTech, Paul Clarkin, mgdodge, Ricky Sullivan, Sam Gregory, Tristan WAGNER, Zak, Eric Cornelissen, Gaurav Chinavle, WhittJS

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Forked from jeemok/better-npm-audit. Original contributors listed above.