Fusion Alliance Security for Node.js - ESLint Plugins

The plugin architecture of ESLint makes it possible to create plugins that look for potential security issues in JavaScript code. Adam Baldwin discusses some of these techniques in his article Using ESLint Plugins for Node.js App Security. This project is a collection of security-minded ESLint custom rules.

Getting Started

You can use these rules in ESLint manually:

eslint --reset -c config.json --rulesdir ./lib [file.js] [dir]

But in practice it's much more convenient to use them in a task runner plugin, such as the FASEC Grunt plugin.

Demo

To see FASEC in action, clone and run the FASEC demo project.

Test

Testing is provided by mocha.

Either run in bash:

$ npm test

Or the full command:

$ node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha tests/**/*.js --reporter spec

List of supported rules

• no-csrf-before-method-override: Checks to see if CSRF middleware is before methodOverride http://blog.nodesecurity.io/2013/09/07/bypass-connect-csrf-protection-by-abusing
• no-timing-attacks: Looks for potential hot spot string comparisons
• no-unsafe-regex: Check if using unsafe regex via safe-regex

Contributors

FASEC is a product of Fusion Alliance © 2015.

• Ray Clannan (Author)

This project uses the following Open Source components:

• evilpacket/eslint-rules, Copyright (c) 2013 Adam Baldwin, MIT License.

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Fusion Alliance With portions Copyright (c) 2013 Adam Baldwin

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