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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.1.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

  • The recommended version is 15 versions ahead of your current version.

  • The recommended version was released a month ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

Issue Score Exploit Maturity
high severity Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
SNYK-JS-QS-14724253		 469 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Poisoning
SNYK-JS-QS-3153490		 469 Proof of Concept
high severity Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860		 469 No Known Exploit
medium severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-7926867		 469 No Known Exploit
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106		 469 Proof of Concept
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-8482416		 469 Proof of Concept
medium severity Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
SNYK-JS-COOKIE-8163060		 469 No Known Exploit
medium severity Open Redirect
SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509		 469 No Known Exploit
low severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-SEND-7926862		 469 No Known Exploit
low severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-SERVESTATIC-7926865		 469 No Known Exploit
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Package name: express from express GitHub release notes

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fix: upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.1
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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.1.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request, automatically generated by Snyk, updates the express framework to its latest stable version, 4.22.1. This significant upgrade addresses a range of critical security vulnerabilities and incorporates various bug fixes and dependency updates accumulated over 15 minor versions. The primary goal is to enhance the application's security posture and overall stability by leveraging the latest improvements in the express ecosystem.

Highlights

  • Express Framework Upgrade: The express framework has been upgraded from version 4.17.1 to 4.22.1, incorporating 15 versions of updates.
  • Security Vulnerability Resolution: This upgrade addresses multiple high and medium severity security vulnerabilities, including Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Prototype Poisoning, Asymmetric Resource Consumption, Cross-site Scripting, Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), and Open Redirect.
  • Transitive Dependency Updates: Numerous transitive dependencies within the express ecosystem have been updated to their latest versions, contributing to a more secure and stable application environment.

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This pull request updates the express dependency in package.json from ^4.17.1 to ^4.22.1. This change triggers a cascade of dependency updates and additions within package-lock.json, affecting numerous packages such as @types/bluebird, accepts, body-parser, bytes, content-disposition, content-type, cookie, depd, destroy, encodeurl, finalhandler, forwarded, http-errors, inherits, lodash, merge-descriptors, mime-db, mime-types, negotiator, on-finished, path-to-regexp, proxy-addr, qs, raw-body, safe-buffer, send, serve-static, setprototypeof, statuses, toidentifier, and unpipe. Additionally, several new transitive dependencies like call-bind-apply-helpers, call-bound, dunder-proto, es-define-property, es-errors, es-object-atoms, function-bind, get-intrinsic, get-proto, gopd, has-symbols, hasown, math-intrinsics, object-inspect, side-channel, side-channel-list, side-channel-map, and side-channel-weakmap are introduced to the lock file to support the updated dependency tree.

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