Open source maintainer pulls the plug on npm packages colors and faker, now what?
Snyk issued a Denial of Service security vulnerability for colors@1.4.1, following this vulnerable code. We highly recommend you revert to colors@1.4.0, and pin your dependencies’ versions to avoid blind upgrades of the offending version. We also recommend you migrate to a different package.
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