[Snyk] Fix for 13 vulnerabilities

[shayc]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 13 vulnerabilities in the npm dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-AXIOS-15252993
	HTTP Response Splitting SNYK-JS-AXIOS-16298058
	Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes SNYK-JS-AXIOS-16299921
	Uncontrolled Recursion SNYK-JS-AXIOS-16299923
	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-AXIOS-16417750
	Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data SNYK-JS-AXIOS-17172681
	Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-15789767
	Infinite loop SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-15789769
	Improper Certificate Validation SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-15789771
	Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-15789773
	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling SNYK-JS-QS-15268416
	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling SNYK-JS-QS-14724253
	Incomplete Filtering of One or More Instances of Special Elements SNYK-JS-VALIDATOR-13653476

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[shayc]

This release includes a high-risk major version upgrade for googleapis and medium-risk minor upgrades for axios and express.

Top 3 Most Impactful Upgrades:

• googleapis 110.0.0 → 124.0.0 (HIGH): This upgrade spans 14 major versions. The googleapis package bundles clients for numerous Google APIs, and nearly every major version includes breaking changes for at least one of those underlying APIs (e.g., AI Platform, Compute, Firestore, YouTube). The official changelogs frequently state "This release has breaking changes" for specific services but lack consolidated details. Given the breadth of changes, it is highly probable that APIs your application uses have been impacted.

  • Recommendation: This upgrade requires careful validation. Developers must identify which specific Google APIs are in use and review the changelogs for those individual client libraries (e.g., google.youtube, google.compute) between the versions included in this range. For many Google Cloud services, the maintainers recommend migrating from this package to the newer @google-cloud/[service] libraries.

• axios 1.8.4 → 1.16.0 (MEDIUM): While this is a minor version upgrade and should be backward-compatible, the range covers numerous releases with security and behavioral adjustments. Notable changes include stricter URL parsing, security hardening that strips sensitive headers on cross-origin redirects, and many bug fixes to request/response adapters. These changes could affect applications relying on previous behavior for edge cases.

  • Recommendation: Verify application functionality related to URL construction, redirects, and proxy usage after this upgrade.

• express 4.21.2 → 4.22.0 (MEDIUM): This minor upgrade includes an update to the qs query string parser. The maintainers noted in a subsequent patch release that version 4.22.0 contained an "erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser". This could impact how your application handles query strings with indexed arrays.

  • Recommendation: Test any application routes that parse complex query strings, especially those containing arrays.

Additional Upgrades:

• validator 13.15.0 → 13.15.22 (LOW): This patch release contains security fixes and bug fixes. Note that version 13.15.22 introduced modern JavaScript syntax (optional chaining) that will cause runtime errors on unsupported Node.js versions (Node.js < 12).

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