Vulnerability Report of a dependency for R.swift Team

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🚨 Vulnerability Report for R.swift Team

Although this mostly do not apply to R.swift being used on a Mac it is important to know about it and still upgrade swift-argument-parser if possible.

Affected Dependency

• Package: swift-argument-parser
• Version: 1.2.3
• Repository: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser
• Package URL: pkg:swift/swift-argument-parser@1.2.3

Dependency Chain

R.swift v7.8.0
└── Swift Argument Parser v1.2.3 ⚠️ (vulnerable)

Security Vulnerabilities Found

1. CVE-2018-4220 (CVSS: 8.8 - HIGH)

• Severity: HIGH
• Attack Vector: Network
• User Interaction: Required
• Impact: High confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact
• Description: Allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context because write and execute permissions are enabled during library loading (Swift for Ubuntu)
• Affected: Swift for Ubuntu before 4.1.1 Security Update 2018-001

2. CVE-2022-3918 (CVSS: 8.8 - HIGH)

• Severity: HIGH
• Attack Vector: Network
• Privileges Required: Low
• Description: CRLF injection vulnerability in URLRequest headers allowing HTTP request smuggling/header injection
• Affected: Swift Foundation before 5.7.3

3. CVE-2020-9861 (CVSS: 7.5 - HIGH)

• Severity: HIGH
• Attack Vector: Network
• Description: Stack overflow in Swift for Linux from deeply nested malicious JSON input
• Affected: Swift for Ubuntu up to 5.1.4

4. CVE-2022-1642 (CVSS: 7.5 - HIGH)

• Severity: HIGH
• Attack Vector: Network
• Description: Denial of service attack via JSON type mismatch in JSONDecoder
• Affected: Swift for Linux/Windows before 5.6.2

5. CVE-2019-8790 (CVSS: 5.5 - MEDIUM)

• Severity: MEDIUM
• Attack Vector: Local
• Description: File descriptor management issue in URLSession leading to data disclosure
• Affected: Swift for Ubuntu before 5.1.1

Risk Assessment for R.swift Usage

• Context: Build-time dependency (not runtime)
• Primary Risk: These vulnerabilities may not directly affect R.swift's code generation functionality
• Secondary Risk: Could affect build environment security or CI/CD pipeline

Recommendations

1. Update Swift Argument Parser to latest version
2. Assess applicability - Many CVEs target Linux/Ubuntu Swift, may not affect macOS builds
3. Consider suppression if vulnerabilities don't apply to R.swift's usage pattern

Scan Details

• Scan Date: 2025-08-27
• OWASP Dependency-Check: v12.1.3
• Detection Confidence: HIGHEST
• NVD API: Used for real-time vulnerability data

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Note: This report was generated automatically by OWASP Dependency-Check during a security audit