chore(deps): update dependency express to v4.21.0 [security] - autoclosed

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
express (source)	4.20.0 -> 4.21.0

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2024-29041

Impact

Versions of Express.js prior to 4.19.2 and pre-release alpha and beta versions before 5.0.0-beta.3 are affected by an open redirect vulnerability using malformed URLs.

When a user of Express performs a redirect using a user-provided URL Express performs an encode using encodeurl on the contents before passing it to the location header. This can cause malformed URLs to be evaluated in unexpected ways by common redirect allow list implementations in Express applications, leading to an Open Redirect via bypass of a properly implemented allow list.

The main method impacted is res.location() but this is also called from within res.redirect().

Patches

https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0867302ddbde0e9463d0564fea5861feb708c2dd https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0b746953c4bd8e377123527db11f9cd866e39f94

An initial fix went out with express@4.19.0, we then patched a feature regression in 4.19.1 and added improved handling for the bypass in 4.19.2.

Workarounds

The fix for this involves pre-parsing the url string with either require('node:url').parse or new URL. These are steps you can take on your own before passing the user input string to res.location or res.redirect.

References

https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5539 https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/1800 https://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#res.location

CVE-2024-43796

Impact

In express <4.20.0, passing untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to response.redirect() may execute untrusted code

Patches

this issue is patched in express 4.20.0

Workarounds

users are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version of express, but otherwise can workaround this issue by making sure any untrusted inputs are safe, ideally by validating them against an explicit allowlist

Details

successful exploitation of this vector requires the following:

1. The attacker MUST control the input to response.redirect()
2. express MUST NOT redirect before the template appears
3. the browser MUST NOT complete redirection before:
4. the user MUST click on the link in the template

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Release Notes

expressjs/express (express)

### [`v4.21.0`](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/releases/tag/4.21.0) [Compare Source](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/compare/4.20.0...4.21.0) #### What's Changed - Deprecate `"back"` magic string in redirects by [@​blakeembrey](https://redirect.github.com/blakeembrey) in [https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5935](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5935) - finalhandler@1.3.1 by [@​wesleytodd](https://redirect.github.com/wesleytodd) in [https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5954](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5954) - fix(deps): serve-static@1.16.2 by [@​wesleytodd](https://redirect.github.com/wesleytodd) in [https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5951](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5951) - Upgraded dependency qs to 6.13.0 to match qs in body-parser by [@​agadzinski93](https://redirect.github.com/agadzinski93) in [https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946) #### New Contributors - [@​agadzinski93](https://redirect.github.com/agadzinski93) made their first contribution in [https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946](https://redirect.github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946) **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/expressjs/express/compare/4.20.0...4.21.0

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