[Snyk] Upgrade express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1

[chirag127]

Snyk has created this PR to upgrade express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

---

• The recommended version is 2 versions ahead of your current version.

• The recommended version was released a month ago.

Release notes

Package name: express

• 4.22.1 - 2025-12-01
  

  What's Changed

  Important

  The prior release (4.22.0) included an erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser. There is no actual security vulnerability associated with this behavior (CVE-2024-51999 has been rejected). The change has been fully reverted in this release.

  • Release: 4.22.1 by @ UlisesGascon in #6934

  Full Changelog: 4.22.0...v4.22.1

• 4.22.0 - 2025-12-01
  

  Important: Security

  • Security fix for CVE-2024-51999 (GHSA-pj86-cfqh-vqx6)

  What's Changed

  • Refactor: improve readability by @ sazk07 in #6190
  • ci: add support for Node.js@23.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6080
  • Method functions with no path should error by @ wesleytodd in #5957
  • ci: updated github actions ci workflow by @ Phillip9587 in #6323
  • ci: reorder npm i steps to fix ci for older node versions by @ Phillip9587 in #6336
  • Backport: ci: add node.js 24 to test matrix by @ Phillip9587 in #6506
  • chore(4.x): wider range for query test skip by @ jonchurch in #6513
  • use tilde notation for certain dependencies by @ UlisesGascon in #6905
  • deps: qs@6.14.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6909
  • deps: use tilde notation for qs by @ Phillip9587 in #6919
  • Release: 4.22.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6921

  Full Changelog: 4.21.2...4.22.0

• 4.21.2 - 2024-12-05
  

  What's Changed

  • Add funding field (v4) by @ bjohansebas in #6065
  • deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.11 by @ blakeembrey in #5956
  • deps: bump path-to-regexp@0.1.12 by @ jonchurch in #6209
  • Release: 4.21.2 by @ UlisesGascon in #6094

  Full Changelog: 4.21.1...4.21.2

from express GitHub release notes

---

Important

• Check the changes in this PR to ensure they won't cause issues with your project.
• This PR was automatically created by Snyk using the credentials of a real user.

---

Note: You are seeing this because you or someone else with access to this repository has authorized Snyk to open upgrade PRs.

For more information:

• 🧐 View latest project report
• 📜 Customise PR templates
• 🛠 Adjust upgrade PR settings
• 🔕 Ignore this dependency or unsubscribe from future upgrade PRs

[continue]

Learn more

---

All Green is an AI agent that automatically:

✅ Addresses code review comments

✅ Fixes failing CI checks

✅ Resolves merge conflicts

---

Unsubscribe from All Green comments

[coderabbitai]

Important

Review skipped

Ignore keyword(s) in the title.

Please check the settings in the CodeRabbit UI or the .coderabbit.yaml file in this repository. To trigger a single review, invoke the @coderabbitai review command.

You can disable this status message by setting the reviews.review_status to false in the CodeRabbit configuration file.

---

Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out.

❤️ Share

• X
• Mastodon
• Reddit
• LinkedIn

_{Comment @coderabbitai help to get the list of available commands and usage tips.}

[gemini-code-assist]

Summary of Changes

Hello @chirag127, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request updates the express framework to version 4.22.1. This upgrade ensures the project benefits from the latest stability improvements and dependency updates, specifically addressing and reverting an unintended breaking change in the query parser that was present in the 4.22.0 release. This helps maintain application stability and leverages the most current features and bug fixes from the express ecosystem.

Highlights

• Express Upgrade: The express package has been upgraded from version 4.21.2 to 4.22.1 to incorporate the latest improvements and fixes.
• Query Parser Correction: Version 4.22.1 includes a crucial fix that reverts an erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser, which was inadvertently introduced in express@4.22.0. It also clarifies that the issue was not a security vulnerability, and CVE-2024-51999 has been rejected.
• Transitive Dependency Updates: Several transitive dependencies of express have been updated, including qs (to 6.14.1 at the top-level and ~6.14.0 within express) and side-channel (to ^1.1.0), alongside adjustments to other internal dependencies.

Using Gemini Code Assist

The full guide for Gemini Code Assist can be found on our documentation page, here are some quick tips.

Invoking Gemini

You can request assistance from Gemini at any point by creating a comment using either /gemini <command> or @gemini-code-assist <command>. Below is a summary of the supported commands on the current page.

Feature	Command	Description
Code Review	/gemini review	Performs a code review for the current pull request in its current state.
Pull Request Summary	/gemini summary	Provides a summary of the current pull request in its current state.
Comment	@gemini-code-assist	Responds in comments when explicitly tagged, both in pull request comments and review comments.
Help	/gemini help	Displays a list of available commands.

Customization

To customize Gemini Code Assist for GitHub experience, repository maintainers can create a configuration file and/or provide a custom code review style guide (such as PEP-8 for Python) by creating and adding files to a .gemini/ folder in the base of the repository. Detailed instructions can be found here.

Limitations & Feedback

Gemini Code Assist may make mistakes. Please leave feedback on any instances where its feedback is incorrect or counter productive. You can react with 👍 and 👎 on @gemini-code-assist comments. If you're interested in giving your feedback about your experience with Gemini Code Assist for Github and other Google products, sign up here.

You can also get AI-powered code generation, chat, as well as code reviews directly in the IDE at no cost with the Gemini Code Assist IDE Extension.

Footnotes

1. Review the Privacy Notices, Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, Terms of Service, and learn how to configure Gemini Code Assist in GitHub here. Gemini can make mistakes, so double check it and use code with caution. ↩

[qodo-code-review]

CI Feedback 🧐

A test triggered by this PR failed. Here is an AI-generated analysis of the failure:

Action: build

Failed stage: Lint [❌]

Failed test name: ""

Failure summary: The action failed during the npm run lint step because the project does not define a lint script in package.json. - Error shown: npm error Missing script: "lint" (log lines 137–149) - As a result, npm run lint exited with code 1, causing the GitHub Action to fail.

Relevant error logs: 1: ##[group]Runner Image Provisioner 2: Hosted Compute Agent ... 126: shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0} 127: ##[endgroup] 128: added 121 packages, and audited 122 packages in 3s 129: 20 packages are looking for funding 130: run `npm fund` for details 131: 5 vulnerabilities (1 low, 4 high) 132: To address issues that do not require attention, run: 133: npm audit fix 134: To address all issues (including breaking changes), run: 135: npm audit fix --force 136: Run `npm audit` for details. 137: ##[group]Run npm run lint 138: �[36;1mnpm run lint�[0m 139: shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0} 140: ##[endgroup] 141: npm error Missing script: "lint" 142: npm error 143: npm error Did you mean this? 144: npm error npm link # Symlink a package folder 145: npm error 146: npm error To see a list of scripts, run: 147: npm error npm run 148: npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2026-01-04T02_13_02_152Z-debug-0.log 149: ##[error]Process completed with exit code 1. 150: Post job cleanup.

[socket-security]

Review the following changes in direct dependencies. Learn more about Socket for GitHub.

Diff	Package	Supply Chain Security	Vulnerability	Quality	Maintenance	License
	@​material-ui/​icons@​4.5.1
	@​material-ui/​core@​4.6.1
	webpack-cli@​4.10.0 ⏵ 4.9.1
	webpack-dev-server@​4.15.2 ⏵ 4.7.4	+2
	webpack@​5.63.0 ⏵ 5.76.0	+2	+74	-6	+3
	react-hook-form@​7.69.0 ⏵ 7.68.0	+1			+2

View full report

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request from Snyk correctly upgrades the express package from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1. The changes are approved. However, I've identified a pre-existing security risk that should be addressed in a separate pull request: the package.json file includes a dependency on exrpess, which is a typo of express. This is a potential typosquatting vulnerability. Even though the current exrpess package is a harmless placeholder, it's crucial to remove this dependency to prevent future security issues.