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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Adoption Passing Confidence
express (source) 4.20.0 -> 4.21.0 age adoption passing confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

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

Release Notes

expressjs/express (express)

v4.21.0

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


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@renovate renovate bot added dependencies Pull requests that update a dependency file javascript Pull requests that update Javascript code security labels Sep 25, 2024
@renovate renovate bot changed the title chore(deps): update dependency express to v4.21.0 [security] chore(deps): update dependency express to v4.21.0 [security] - autoclosed Sep 25, 2024
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