Update dependency express to v4.21.1

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
express (source)	dependencies	minor	4.18.2 -> 4.21.1

By merging this PR, the issue #6 will be automatically resolved and closed:

Severity	CVSS Score	CVE
High	7.5	CVE-2024-45296
High	7.5	CVE-2024-52798
Medium	6.1	CVE-2024-29041
Medium	5.3	CVE-2024-47764

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Release Notes

expressjs/express (express)

v4.21.1

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What's Changed

• Backport a fix for CVE-2024-47764 to the 4.x branch by @​joshbuker in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/6029
• Release: 4.21.1 by @​UlisesGascon in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/6031

Full Changelog: expressjs/express@4.21.0...4.21.1

v4.21.0

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What's Changed

• Deprecate "back" magic string in redirects by @​blakeembrey in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5935
• [email protected] by @​wesleytodd in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5954
• fix(deps): [email protected] by @​wesleytodd in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5951
• Upgraded dependency qs to 6.13.0 to match qs in body-parser by @​agadzinski93 in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946

New Contributors

• @​agadzinski93 made their first contribution in https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5946

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

v4.20.0

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• deps: [email protected]
  • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
• deps: [email protected]
  • Remove link renderization in html while redirecting
• deps: [email protected]
  • add depth option to customize the depth level in the parser
  • 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
• deps: [email protected]
  • Adds support for named matching groups in the routes using a regex
  • Adds backtracking protection to parameters without regexes defined
• deps: encodeurl@~2.0.0
  • Removes encoding of \, |, and ^ to align better with URL spec
• Deprecate passing options.maxAge and options.expires to res.clearCookie
  • Will be ignored in v5, clearCookie will set a cookie with an expires in the past to instruct clients to delete the cookie

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: [email protected]

v4.18.3

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• 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]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Add partitioned option

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