Update dependency express to v4.19.2 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
express (source)	4.17.1 → 4.19.2

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

expressjs/express@0867302
expressjs/express@0b74695

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.

Resources

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

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Release Notes

expressjs/express (express)

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

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