🚨 [security] [js] Update express 4.17.2 → 4.21.1 (minor)

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What changed?

✳️ express (4.17.2 → 4.21.1) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 express vulnerable to XSS via response.redirect()

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

🚨 Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs

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

0867302
0b74695

An initial fix went out with [email protected], 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

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

Release Notes

4.21.1

What's Changed

• 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: 4.21.0...4.21.1

4.21.0

What's Changed

• Deprecate "back" magic string in redirects by @blakeembrey in #5935
• [email protected] by @wesleytodd in #5954
• fix(deps): [email protected] 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: 4.20.0...4.21.0

4.20.0

What's Changed

Important

• 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

Other Changes

• 4.19.2 Staging by @wesleytodd in #5561
• remove duplicate location test for data uri by @wesleytodd in #5562
• feat: document beta releases expectations by @marco-ippolito in #5565
• Cut down on duplicated CI runs by @jonchurch in #5564
• Add a Threat Model by @UlisesGascon in #5526
• Assign captain of encodeurl by @blakeembrey in #5579
• Nominate jonchurch as repo captain for http-errors, expressjs.com, morgan, cors, body-parser by @jonchurch in #5587
• docs: update Security.md by @inigomarquinez in #5590
• docs: update triage nomination policy by @UlisesGascon in #5600
• Add CodeQL (SAST) by @UlisesGascon in #5433
• docs: add UlisesGascon as triage initiative captain by @UlisesGascon in #5605
• deps: encodeurl@~2.0.0 by @blakeembrey in #5569
• skip QUERY method test by @jonchurch in #5628
• ignore ETAG query test on 21 and 22, reuse skip util by @jonchurch in #5639
• add support Node.js@22 in the CI by @mertcanaltin in #5627
• doc: add table of contents, tc/triager lists to readme by @mertcanaltin in #5619
• List and sort all projects, add captains by @blakeembrey in #5653
• docs: add @UlisesGascon as captain for cookie-parser by @UlisesGascon in #5666
• ✨ bring back query tests for node 21 by @ctcpip in #5690
• [v4] Deprecate res.clearCookie accepting options.maxAge and options.expires by @jonchurch in #5672
• skip QUERY tests for Node 21 only, still not supported by @jonchurch in #5695
• 📝 update people, add ctcpip to TC by @ctcpip in #5683
• remove minor version pinning from ci by @jonchurch in #5722
• Fix link variable use in attribution section of CODE OF CONDUCT by @IamLizu in #5762
• Replace Appveyor windows testing with GHA by @jonchurch in #5599
• Add OSSF Scorecard badge by @UlisesGascon in #5436
• update scorecard link by @bjohansebas in #5814
• Nominate @IamLizu to the triage team by @UlisesGascon in #5836
• deps: [email protected] by @blakeembrey in #5603
• docs: specify new instructions for question and discuss by @IamLizu in #5835
• 4.x: Upgrade merge-descriptors dependency by @RobinTail in #5781
• [email protected] by @blakeembrey in #5902

New Contributors

• @marco-ippolito made their first contribution in #5565
• @inigomarquinez made their first contribution in #5590
• @mertcanaltin made their first contribution in #5627
• @ctcpip made their first contribution in #5690
• @bjohansebas made their first contribution in #5814

Full Changelog: 4.19.1...4.20.0

4.19.2

What's Changed

• Improved fix for open redirect allow list bypass

Full Changelog: 4.19.1...4.19.2

4.19.1

What's Changed

• Fix ci after location patch by @wesleytodd in #5552
• fixed un-edited version in history.md for 4.19.0 by @wesleytodd in #5556

Full Changelog: 4.19.0...4.19.1

4.19.0

What's Changed

• fix typo in release date by @UlisesGascon in #5527
• docs: nominating @wesleytodd to be project captian by @wesleytodd in #5511
• docs: loosen TC activity rules by @wesleytodd in #5510
• Add note on how to update docs for new release by @crandmck in #5541
• Prevent open redirect allow list bypass due to encodeurl
• Release 4.19.0 by @wesleytodd in #5551

New Contributors

• @crandmck made their first contribution in #5541

Full Changelog: 4.18.3...4.19.0

4.18.3

Main Changes

• Fix routing requests without method
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix strict json error message on Node.js 19+
  • deps: content-type@~1.0.5
  • deps: [email protected]

Other Changes

• Use https: protocol instead of deprecated git: protocol by @vcsjones in #5032
• build: [email protected] and [email protected] by @abenhamdine in #5034
• ci: update actions/checkout to v3 by @armujahid in #5027
• test: remove unused function arguments in params by @raksbisht in #5124
• Remove unused originalIndex from acceptParams by @raksbisht in #5119
• Fixed typos by @raksbisht in #5117
• examples: remove unused params by @raksbisht in #5113
• fix: parameter str is not described in JSDoc by @raksbisht in #5130
• fix: typos in History.md by @raksbisht in #5131
• build : add [email protected] by @abenhamdine in #5028
• test: remove unused function arguments in params by @raksbisht in #5137
• use random port in test so it won't fail on already listening by @rluvaton in #5162
• tests: use cb() instead of done() by @kristof-low in #5233
• examples: remove multipart example by @riddlew in #5195
• Update support Node.js@18 in the CI by @UlisesGascon in #5490
• Fix favicon-related bug in cookie-sessions example by @DmytroKondrashov in #5414
• Release 4.18.3 by @UlisesGascon in #5505

New Contributors

• @vcsjones made their first contribution in #5032
• @abenhamdine made their first contribution in #5034
• @armujahid made their first contribution in #5027
• @raksbisht made their first contribution in #5124
• @rluvaton made their first contribution in #5162
• @kristof-low made their first contribution in #5233
• @riddlew made their first contribution in #5195
• @DmytroKondrashov made their first contribution in #5414

Full Changelog: 4.18.2...4.18.3

4.18.2

• Fix regression routing a large stack in a single route
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • perf: remove unnecessary object clone
• deps: [email protected]

4.18.1

• Fix hanging on large stack of sync routes

4.18.0

• 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: [email protected]
  • 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: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Add priority option
  • Fix expires option to reject invalid dates
• deps: [email protected]
  • Replace internal eval usage with Function constructor
  • Use instance methods on process to check for listeners
• deps: [email protected]
  • Remove set content headers that break response
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Prevent loss of async hooks context
• deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix emitted 416 error missing headers property
  • Limit the headers removed for 304 response
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Remove code 306
  • Rename 425 Unordered Collection to standard 425 Too Early

4.17.3

• deps: accepts@~1.3.8
  • deps: mime-types@~2.1.34
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix handling of __proto__ keys
• pref: remove unnecessary regexp for trust proxy

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