Fix known high severity vulnerabilities

[adamsitnik]

I've tried to build and run our samples today and got following errors:

PS D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\samples\BenchmarkDotNet.Samples> dotnet run -c Release -f net8.0 --filter *Counters* --list flat
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\9.0.100-preview.7.24402.8\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.TargetFrameworkInference.targets(187,5): warning NETSDK1215: Targeting .NET Standard prior to 2.0 is no longer recommended. See https://aka.ms/dotnet/dotnet-standard-guidance for more details.
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\src\BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations\BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Text.RegularExpressions' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmhx-cq75-c4mj
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\samples\BenchmarkDotNet.Samples\BenchmarkDotNet.Samples.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Net.Http' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jgj-8wvc-jh57
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\samples\BenchmarkDotNet.Samples\BenchmarkDotNet.Samples.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Text.RegularExpressions' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmhx-cq75-c4mj
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\src\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotMemory\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotMemory.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Net.Http' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jgj-8wvc-jh57
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\src\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotTrace\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotTrace.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Net.Http' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jgj-8wvc-jh57
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\src\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotMemory\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotMemory.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Text.RegularExpressions' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmhx-cq75-c4mj
D:\projects\BenchmarkDotNet\src\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotTrace\BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotTrace.csproj : error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'System.Text.RegularExpressions' 4.3.0 has a known high severity vulnerability, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmhx-cq75-c4mj

My first thought was that the fix will be straightforward: just update System.Text.RegularExpressions and System.Net.Http to most recent versions. I've quickly realized that these are transitive dependencies.

In case of BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations, this project targets netstandard1.0 (it's just a project with attributes, almost no logic at all and we wanted to target lowest tfm possible). This gives us a dependency to https://www.nuget.org/packages/NETStandard.Library/1.6.1. Can we just update it? No, because it has not been updated since 2018. The following warning suggests that it's on purpose:

warning NETSDK1215: Targeting .NET Standard prior to 2.0 is no longer recommended.

I could just remove the netstandard1.0 TFM from BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations, but BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotTrace and BenchmarkDotNet.Diagnostics.dotMemory both depend on https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.Profiler.SelfApi/, which depends on https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.HabitatDetector/ which depends on https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.FormatRipper/ which has the same dependency:

As a quick workaround I've decided to just add a dependency to these two packages (System.Text.RegularExpressions and System.Net.Http) to BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations, which all BDN packages depend on.

The alternatives I've considered:

• Open an issue and send a PR to https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.FormatRipper/ to add these explicit dependencies to System.Text.RegularExpressions and System.Net.Http.
• Open an issue and send a PR to https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.Profiler.SelfApi/ to change the supported monikers: from net46 to net462 (this would pick up the netstandard2.0 dependency of JetBrains.HabitatDetector and solve the problem). But this would be a breaking change (cc @AndreyAkinshin).

cc @ericstj

[adamsitnik]

Open an issue and send a PR to https://www.nuget.org/packages/JetBrains.Profiler.SelfApi/ to change the supported monikers: from net46 to net462 (this would pick up the netstandard2.0 dependency of JetBrains.HabitatDetector and solve the problem).

I gave it a try and it has not solved the problem. Considering https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard?tabs=net-standard-2-0 the right solution would be to remove netstandard1.x support in all the mentioned packages?

[Numpsy]

I don't know if it'd help for this situation, but for the

In case of BenchmarkDotNet.Annotations

case, if you wanted to keep the old .NET Standard 1.x version, I think some of the Serilog libraries used to set

<DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences>true</DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences>

for .NET Standard 1.x targets to remove the automatic dependency on NETStandard.Library and then directly reference the minimum bits that they actually use (and then the references to Http and RegularExpression might go away altogether, rather than needing to be updated)

[ericstj]

If you can, get all your dependencies to, at the very least, add new target frameworks that are newer than netstandard1.x. When targeting netstandard2.0 or newer no framework packages are referenced at all. Ideally they'd remove the netstandard1.x targets as well - but that's not necessary to expose fewer dependencies to consumers.

If you can't get your dependencies to do that, then updating to the latest version of NETStandard.Library may solve the issue without needing to add unused dependencies since the latest version of this package will avoid bringing in the old packages on frameowrks where they aren't needed.

[AndreyAkinshin]

I vote for dropping netstandard1.0. This target brings a lot of problems (and I expect more problems in the future), while there is not much value in supporting obsolete runtimes.

Speaking of JetBrains.FormatRipper, the netstandard2.0 target was added. Hopefully, it will solve the transitive dependency problems in dotTrace/dotMemory packages (once the new versions of the JetBraind dependencies are available).