Update dependency express to ^4.21.1 (main) #63

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
express (source)	dependencies	minor	`^4.14.1` -> `^4.21.1`

By merging this PR, the issue #57 will be automatically resolved and closed:

Severity	CVSS Score	Vulnerability
High	7.5	CVE-2024-45296
High	7.5	CVE-2024-52798
Medium	6.1	CVE-2024-29041
Medium	5.3	CVE-2024-47764
Medium	5.0	CVE-2024-43796

Release Notes

expressjs/express (express)

`v4.21.1`

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Backport a fix for CVE-2024-47764 to the 4.x branch by @joshbuker in #6029
Release: 4.21.1 by @UlisesGascon in #6031

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.21.0...4.21.1

`v4.21.0`

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Deprecate "back" magic string in redirects by @blakeembrey in #5935
finalhandler@1.3.1 by @wesleytodd in #5954
fix(deps): serve-static@1.16.2 by @wesleytodd in #5951
Upgraded dependency qs to 6.13.0 to match qs in body-parser by @agadzinski93 in #5946

New Contributors

@agadzinski93 made their first contribution in #5946

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.20.0...4.21.0

`v4.20.0`

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deps: serve-static@0.16.0
- Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
deps: send@0.19.0
- Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
deps: body-parser@0.6.0
- add depth option to customize the depth level in the parser
- IMPORTANT: The default depth level for parsing URL-encoded data is now 32 (previously was Infinity)
Remove link renderization in html while using res.redirect
deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.10
- Adds support for named matching groups in the routes using a regex
- Adds backtracking protection to parameters without regexes defined
deps: encodeurl@~2.0.0
- Removes encoding of \, |, and ^ to align better with URL spec
Deprecate passing options.maxAge and options.expires to res.clearCookie
- Will be ignored in v5, clearCookie will set a cookie with an expires in the past to instruct clients to delete the cookie

`v4.19.2`

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Improved fix for open redirect allow list bypass

`v4.19.1`

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Allow passing non-strings to res.location with new encoding handling checks

`v4.19.0`

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Prevent open redirect allow list bypass due to encodeurl
deps: cookie@0.6.0

`v4.18.3`

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Fix routing requests without method
deps: body-parser@1.20.2
- Fix strict json error message on Node.js 19+
- deps: content-type@~1.0.5
- deps: raw-body@2.5.2
deps: cookie@0.6.0
- Add partitioned option

`v4.18.2`

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Fix regression routing a large stack in a single route
deps: body-parser@1.20.1
- deps: qs@6.11.0
- perf: remove unnecessary object clone
deps: qs@6.11.0

`v4.18.1`

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Fix hanging on large stack of sync routes

`v4.18.0`

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Add "root" option to res.download
Allow options without filename in res.download
Deprecate string and non-integer arguments to res.status
Fix behavior of null/undefined as maxAge in res.cookie
Fix handling very large stacks of sync middleware
Ignore Object.prototype values in settings through app.set/app.get
Invoke default with same arguments as types in res.format
Support proper 205 responses using res.send
Use http-errors for res.format error
deps: body-parser@1.20.0
- Fix error message for json parse whitespace in strict
- Fix internal error when inflated body exceeds limit
- Prevent loss of async hooks context
- Prevent hanging when request already read
- deps: depd@2.0.0
- deps: http-errors@2.0.0
- deps: on-finished@2.4.1
- deps: qs@6.10.3
- deps: raw-body@2.5.1
deps: cookie@0.5.0
- Add priority option
- Fix expires option to reject invalid dates
deps: depd@2.0.0
- Replace internal eval usage with Function constructor
- Use instance methods on process to check for listeners
deps: finalhandler@1.2.0
- Remove set content headers that break response
- deps: on-finished@2.4.1
- deps: statuses@2.0.1
deps: on-finished@2.4.1
- Prevent loss of async hooks context
deps: qs@6.10.3
deps: send@0.18.0
- Fix emitted 416 error missing headers property
- Limit the headers removed for 304 response
- deps: depd@2.0.0
- deps: destroy@1.2.0
- deps: http-errors@2.0.0
- deps: on-finished@2.4.1
- deps: statuses@2.0.1
deps: serve-static@1.15.0
- deps: send@0.18.0
deps: statuses@2.0.1
- Remove code 306
- Rename 425 Unordered Collection to standard 425 Too Early

`v4.17.3`

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deps: accepts@~1.3.8
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.34
- deps: negotiator@0.6.3
deps: body-parser@1.19.2
- deps: bytes@3.1.2
- deps: qs@6.9.7
- deps: raw-body@2.4.3
deps: cookie@0.4.2
deps: qs@6.9.7
- Fix handling of __proto__ keys
pref: remove unnecessary regexp for trust proxy

`v4.17.2`

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Fix handling of undefined in res.jsonp
Fix handling of undefined when "json escape" is enabled
Fix incorrect middleware execution with unanchored RegExps
Fix res.jsonp(obj, status) deprecation message
Fix typo in res.is JSDoc
deps: body-parser@1.19.1
- deps: bytes@3.1.1
- deps: http-errors@1.8.1
- deps: qs@6.9.6
- deps: raw-body@2.4.2
- deps: safe-buffer@5.2.1
- deps: type-is@~1.6.18
deps: content-disposition@0.5.4
- deps: safe-buffer@5.2.1
deps: cookie@0.4.1
- Fix maxAge option to reject invalid values
deps: proxy-addr@~2.0.7
- Use req.socket over deprecated req.connection
- deps: forwarded@0.2.0
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.9.1
deps: qs@6.9.6
deps: safe-buffer@5.2.1
deps: send@0.17.2
- deps: http-errors@1.8.1
- deps: ms@2.1.3
- pref: ignore empty http tokens
deps: serve-static@1.14.2
- deps: send@0.17.2
deps: setprototypeof@1.2.0

`v4.17.1`

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Revert "Improve error message for null/undefined to res.status"

`v4.17.0`

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Add express.raw to parse bodies into Buffer
Add express.text to parse bodies into string
Improve error message for non-strings to res.sendFile
Improve error message for null/undefined to res.status
Support multiple hosts in X-Forwarded-Host
deps: accepts@~1.3.7
deps: body-parser@1.19.0
- Add encoding MIK
- Add petabyte (pb) support
- Fix parsing array brackets after index
- deps: bytes@3.1.0
- deps: http-errors@1.7.2
- deps: iconv-lite@0.4.24
- deps: qs@6.7.0
- deps: raw-body@2.4.0
- deps: type-is@~1.6.17
deps: content-disposition@0.5.3
deps: cookie@0.4.0
- Add SameSite=None support
deps: finalhandler@~1.1.2
- Set stricter Content-Security-Policy header
- deps: parseurl@~1.3.3
- deps: statuses@~1.5.0
deps: parseurl@~1.3.3
deps: proxy-addr@~2.0.5
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.9.0
deps: qs@6.7.0
- Fix parsing array brackets after index
deps: range-parser@~1.2.1
deps: send@0.17.1
- Set stricter CSP header in redirect & error responses
- deps: http-errors@~1.7.2
- deps: mime@1.6.0
- deps: ms@2.1.1
- deps: range-parser@~1.2.1
- deps: statuses@~1.5.0
- perf: remove redundant path.normalize call
deps: serve-static@1.14.1
- Set stricter CSP header in redirect response
- deps: parseurl@~1.3.3
- deps: send@0.17.1
deps: setprototypeof@1.1.1
deps: statuses@~1.5.0
- Add 103 Early Hints
deps: type-is@~1.6.18
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.24
- perf: prevent internal throw on invalid type

`v4.16.4`

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Fix issue where "Request aborted" may be logged in res.sendfile
Fix JSDoc for Router constructor
deps: body-parser@1.18.3
- Fix deprecation warnings on Node.js 10+
- Fix stack trace for strict json parse error
- deps: depd@~1.1.2
- deps: http-errors@~1.6.3
- deps: iconv-lite@0.4.23
- deps: qs@6.5.2
- deps: raw-body@2.3.3
- deps: type-is@~1.6.16
deps: proxy-addr@~2.0.4
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.8.0
deps: qs@6.5.2
deps: safe-buffer@5.1.2

`v4.16.3`

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deps: accepts@~1.3.5
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.18
deps: depd@~1.1.2
- perf: remove argument reassignment
deps: encodeurl@~1.0.2
- Fix encoding % as last character
deps: finalhandler@1.1.1
- Fix 404 output for bad / missing pathnames
- deps: encodeurl@~1.0.2
- deps: statuses@~1.4.0
deps: proxy-addr@~2.0.3
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.6.0
deps: send@0.16.2
- Fix incorrect end tag in default error & redirects
- deps: depd@~1.1.2
- deps: encodeurl@~1.0.2
- deps: statuses@~1.4.0
deps: serve-static@1.13.2
- Fix incorrect end tag in redirects
- deps: encodeurl@~1.0.2
- deps: send@0.16.2
deps: statuses@~1.4.0
deps: type-is@~1.6.16
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.18

`v4.16.2`

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Fix TypeError in res.send when given Buffer and ETag header set
perf: skip parsing of entire X-Forwarded-Proto header

`v4.16.1`

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deps: send@0.16.1
deps: serve-static@1.13.1
- Fix regression when root is incorrectly set to a file
- deps: send@0.16.1

`v4.16.0`

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Add "json escape" setting for res.json and res.jsonp
Add express.json and express.urlencoded to parse bodies
Add options argument to res.download
Improve error message when autoloading invalid view engine
Improve error messages when non-function provided as middleware
Skip Buffer encoding when not generating ETag for small response
Use safe-buffer for improved Buffer API
deps: accepts@~1.3.4
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.16
deps: content-type@~1.0.4
- perf: remove argument reassignment
- perf: skip parameter parsing when no parameters
deps: etag@~1.8.1
- perf: replace regular expression with substring
deps: finalhandler@1.1.0
- Use res.headersSent when available
deps: parseurl@~1.3.2
- perf: reduce overhead for full URLs
- perf: unroll the "fast-path" RegExp
deps: proxy-addr@~2.0.2
- Fix trimming leading / trailing OWS in X-Forwarded-For
- deps: forwarded@~0.1.2
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.5.2
- perf: reduce overhead when no X-Forwarded-For header
deps: qs@6.5.1
- Fix parsing & compacting very deep objects
deps: send@0.16.0
- Add 70 new types for file extensions
- Add immutable option
- Fix missing </html> in default error & redirects
- Set charset as "UTF-8" for .js and .json
- Use instance methods on steam to check for listeners
- deps: mime@1.4.1
- perf: improve path validation speed
deps: serve-static@1.13.0
- Add 70 new types for file extensions
- Add immutable option
- Set charset as "UTF-8" for .js and .json
- deps: send@0.16.0
deps: setprototypeof@1.1.0
deps: utils-merge@1.0.1
deps: vary@~1.1.2
- perf: improve header token parsing speed
perf: re-use options object when generating ETags
perf: remove dead .charset set in res.jsonp

`v4.15.5`

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deps: debug@2.6.9
deps: finalhandler@~1.0.6
- deps: debug@2.6.9
- deps: parseurl@~1.3.2
deps: fresh@0.5.2
- Fix handling of modified headers with invalid dates
- perf: improve ETag match loop
- perf: improve If-None-Match token parsing
deps: send@0.15.6
- Fix handling of modified headers with invalid dates
- deps: debug@2.6.9
- deps: etag@~1.8.1
- deps: fresh@0.5.2
- perf: improve If-Match token parsing
deps: serve-static@1.12.6
- deps: parseurl@~1.3.2
- deps: send@0.15.6
- perf: improve slash collapsing

`v4.15.4`

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deps: debug@2.6.8
deps: depd@~1.1.1
- Remove unnecessary Buffer loading
deps: finalhandler@~1.0.4
- deps: debug@2.6.8
deps: proxy-addr@~1.1.5
- Fix array argument being altered
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.4.0
deps: qs@6.5.0
deps: send@0.15.4
- deps: debug@2.6.8
- deps: depd@~1.1.1
- deps: http-errors@~1.6.2
deps: serve-static@1.12.4
- deps: send@0.15.4

`v4.15.3`

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Fix error when res.set cannot add charset to Content-Type
deps: debug@2.6.7
- Fix DEBUG_MAX_ARRAY_LENGTH
- deps: ms@2.0.0
deps: finalhandler@~1.0.3
- Fix missing </html> in HTML document
- deps: debug@2.6.7
deps: proxy-addr@~1.1.4
- deps: ipaddr.js@1.3.0
deps: send@0.15.3
- deps: debug@2.6.7
- deps: ms@2.0.0
deps: serve-static@1.12.3
- deps: send@0.15.3
deps: type-is@~1.6.15
- deps: mime-types@~2.1.15
deps: vary@~1.1.1
- perf: hoist regular expression

`v4.15.2`

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deps: qs@6.4.0
- Fix regression parsing keys starting with [

`v4.15.1`

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deps: send@0.15.1
- Fix issue when Date.parse does not return NaN on invalid date
- Fix strict violation in broken environments
deps: serve-static@1.12.1
- Fix issue when Date.parse does not return NaN on invalid date
- deps: send@0.15.1

`v4.15.0`

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Add debug message when loading view engine
Add next("router") to exit from router
Fix case where router.use skipped requests routes did not
Remove usage of res._headers private field
- Improves compatibility with Node.js 8 nightly
Skip routing when req.url is not set
Use %o in path debug to tell types apart
Use Object.create to setup request & response prototypes
Use setprototypeof module to replace __proto__ setting
Use statuses instead of http module for status messages
deps: debug@2.6.1
- Allow colors in workers
- Deprecated DEBUG_FD environment variable set to 3 or higher
- Fix error when running under React Native
- Use same color for same namespace
- deps: ms@0.7.2
deps: etag@~1.8.0
- Use SHA1 instead of MD5 for ETag hashing
- Works with FIPS 140-2 OpenSSL configuration
deps: finalhandler@~1.0.0
- Fix exception when err cannot be converted to a string
- Fully URL-encode the pathname in the 404
- Only include the pathname in the 404 message
- Send complete HTML document
- Set Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' header
- deps: debug@2.6.1
deps: fresh@0.5.0
- Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
- Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
- Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
- perf: delay reading header values until needed
- perf: enable strict mode
- perf: hoist regular expressions
- perf: remove duplicate conditional
- perf: remove unnecessary boolean coercions
- perf: skip checking modified time if ETag check failed
- perf: skip parsing If-None-Match when no ETag header
- perf: use Date.parse instead of new Date
deps: qs@6.3.1
- Fix array parsing from skipping empty values
- Fix compacting nested arrays
deps: send@0.15.0
- Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
- Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
- Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
- Remove usage of res._headers private field
- Support If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers
- Use res.getHeaderNames() when available
- Use res.headersSent when available
- deps: debug@2.6.1
- deps: etag@~1.8.0
- deps: fresh@0.5.0
- deps: http-errors@~1.6.1
deps: serve-static@1.12.0
- Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
- Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
- Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
- Remove usage of res._headers private field
- Send complete HTML document in redirect response
- Set default CSP header in redirect response
- Support If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers
- Use res.getHeaderNames() when available
- Use res.headersSent when available
- deps: send@0.15.0
perf: add fast match path for * route
perf: improve req.ips performance

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