Pin express to 4.22.1 to resolve CVE-2024-51999

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Plan to Pin Express to 4.22.1

• Explore repository structure and understand codebase
• Run existing tests to establish baseline (55 tests passing)
• Run build to verify current state (build successful)
• Run lint to check code quality (no issues)
• Confirm security vulnerability CVE-2024-51999 in express 4.21.2
• Modify package.json to pin express to version 4.22.1
• Update package-lock.json by running npm install
• Update pnpm-lock.yaml by running pnpm install
• Verify all tests still pass with express 4.22.1 (55 tests passing)
• Run build to ensure no breaking changes (build successful)
• Verify security vulnerability is resolved (confirmed via npm audit)
• Fix lockfile conflicts after merge with renovate branch
• Verify build and tests pass after fixing conflicts

Summary

Successfully pinned express to version 4.22.1 to resolve CVE-2024-51999 without introducing breaking changes. Fixed lockfile conflicts that occurred after merging with the renovate branch. All tests pass, build succeeds, and the security vulnerability is fixed for the main express dependency.

Original prompt

The pull request at #130 upgrades the express package to the potentially breaking version 5. To address this issue while avoiding breaking changes, we will pin the express package version to 4.22.1, which resolves CVE-2024-51999.

Plan:

• Modify the package.json file to explicitly set the express dependency to version 4.22.1.
• Update the package-lock.json file to synchronize with this change.
• Ensure that all other dependencies remain unchanged. No additional upgrades will be performed.
• Verify that there are no breaking changes associated with staying on version 4 by running all existing tests.

This resolves the security vulnerability without causing potential breakages introduced in Express version 5.

This pull request was created as a result of the following prompt from Copilot chat.

The pull request at #130 upgrades the express package to the potentially breaking version 5. To address this issue while avoiding breaking changes, we will pin the express package version to 4.22.1, which resolves CVE-2024-51999.

Plan:

• Modify the package.json file to explicitly set the express dependency to version 4.22.1.
• Update the package-lock.json file to synchronize with this change.
• Ensure that all other dependencies remain unchanged. No additional upgrades will be performed.
• Verify that there are no breaking changes associated with staying on version 4 by running all existing tests.

This resolves the security vulnerability without causing potential breakages introduced in Express version 5.

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Pull request overview

This PR addresses CVE-2024-51999 by pinning the Express dependency to version 4.22.1, which contains the security fix for query parameter pollution without introducing breaking changes from Express 5.x.

Key Changes:

• Updated Express dependency from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1 in package.json
• Regenerated lock files to reflect the pinned version

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@copilot fix build and conflicts

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@copilot fix build and conflicts

Fixed the build and lockfile conflicts. The merge had caused broken lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml was referencing express@5.2.0 while package.json had 4.22.1). Regenerated both lockfiles to resolve the conflicts. All tests pass (55/55) and build completes successfully. Commit: e4dae89

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