fix(security/high/actions/plugins/frontend-e2e-against-stack): update dependency js-yaml to v5.2.2 [security]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
js-yaml	dependencies	patch	5.2.1 → 5.2.2

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js-yaml: Exponential parsing time in flow collections leads to denial of service

GHSA-pm4m-ph32-ghv5

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Summary

Parsing a small YAML document can take exponential time. An application that calls load() or loadAll() on untrusted input can be hung by a payload under 200 bytes.

Details

When an entry in a flow sequence turns out to be a key: value pair, the parser rewinds and parses that entry a second time as the key.
If the key is itself a nested flow sequence of the same shape, every level is parsed twice, so the total work is O(2^n) in the nesting depth. The default maxDepth of 100 does not help, because the time is already unmanageable at about 30 to 40 levels.

Root cause, potentially the: readFlowCollection in parser.ts, the restoreState followed by a second parseNode further down.

PoC

const yaml = require('js-yaml')
const n = 30
yaml.load('[ '.repeat(n) + '1' + ' ]: 0'.repeat(n))

With default options: 22 levels takes about 1 second, 26 levels about 17 seconds, 30 levels over 2 minutes. The input stays under 200 bytes and grows linearly with n.

Impact

Denial of service. A single small request can keep one CPU busy for minutes or longer and blocks the Node event loop, so one request can stall the whole process. No anchors, aliases, merges, tags, or non default options are required, and it reproduces on the default schema.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/security/advisories/GHSA-pm4m-ph32-ghv5
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/commit/3e5240f9cbe645ce5afb58524954a13c8539c853
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml
• https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/releases/tag/5.2.2

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Release Notes

nodeca/js-yaml (js-yaml)

v5.2.2

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Fixed

• Quote flow scalars where a colon precedes a flow indicator, #​773.

Security

• Avoid exponential parsing time for nested flow sequence pairs.

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