🚨 [security] [boilerplate/ts/infra/rest/express] Update express 4.18.2 → 4.20.0 (minor)

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✳️ express (4.18.2 → 4.20.0) · 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

4.19.2

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

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Commits

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