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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.2.

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 16 versions ahead of your current version.

  • The recommended version was released 2 months ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

Issue Score Exploit Maturity
high severity Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860		 624 No Known Exploit
high severity Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
SNYK-JS-QS-14724253		 624 Proof of Concept
high severity Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
SNYK-JS-QS-15268416		 624 Proof of Concept
high severity Prototype Poisoning
SNYK-JS-QS-3153490		 624 Proof of Concept
medium severity Open Redirect
SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509		 624 No Known Exploit
medium severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-7926867		 624 No Known Exploit
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-15789761		 624 No Known Exploit
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106		 624 Proof of Concept
medium severity Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-8482416		 624 Proof of Concept
low severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-SEND-7926862		 624 No Known Exploit
low severity Cross-site Scripting
SNYK-JS-SERVESTATIC-7926865		 624 No Known Exploit

Breaking Change Risk

Merge Risk: Medium

Notice: This assessment is enhanced by AI.

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Package name: express from express GitHub release notes

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fix: upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.2
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Merge Risk: Medium

This is a minor version upgrade within the v4 series, but it includes a potentially breaking behavioral change that warrants a medium risk assessment.

Key Changes:

  • URL-Encoded Parsing Depth (v4.20.0): The most significant change is that the default depth for parsing URL-encoded data has been reduced from Infinity to 32. [3] This was done to mitigate potential denial-of-service attacks. If your application processes deeply nested objects from form submissions (application/x-www-form-urlencoded), this could be a breaking change.
  • Security Fixes: The releases within this range include several security patches, such as fixes for an XSS vulnerability in res.redirect() (v4.20.0) and an open redirect vulnerability (v4.19.0). [8]

Recommendation:
Verify that your application does not rely on parsing URL-encoded objects with a nesting depth greater than 32. If it does, you may need to adjust your application logic or explicitly configure a higher depth limit.

Source: Express History.md

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