chore: clear the dependency backlog, and fix a log-injection finding (v0.23.32-beta)
Two pieces of housekeeping that had gone quiet.
A code-scanning alert nobody had looked at. CodeQL flagged js/log-injection
in the preflight handler: a request value interpolated straight into a log line.
Log entries are newline-delimited, so a value containing a line break forges
additional entries — and an audit trail its own subject can write into is worse
than none, because it is believed.
The interesting part is that the risk had already been recognised. Two sites in
the clients routes strip carriage returns inline, ad hoc, and the third was
simply missed. That is what a shared helper is for, so there is now a logSafe
utility with tests, used at all three. It replaces control characters with a
visible marker rather than stripping them, so a tampered value reads as tampered
instead of being quietly tidied, and truncates absurd input so one field cannot
flood the log.
Twelve Dependabot pull requests, the oldest six weeks old. Nine had passing
checks, but those runs were from July against a main that has moved a long way,
so rather than merging stale branches serially the eight safe ones are applied
here as one change and verified together: bullmq, pg, helmet, @types/supertest,
tailwind-merge, vite, actions/setup-node and github/codeql-action.
Deliberately excluded, and left open:
- bcryptjs 2.4.3 to 3.0.3 (#79) — a major on the password-hashing path.
Dependabot groups it with routine bumps; it is not one, and it deserves
its own verification rather than riding along in a batch. - typescript 5.9 to 7.0 (#81), tailwindcss 3.4 to 4.3 (#76) and
eslint-plugin-react-hooks (#78) — all three already fail their own checks.
Verified beyond the gates: the application was rebuilt and exercised on the new
dependencies — authentication, the BullMQ-backed poller, Postgres reads and
helmet's headers all behave.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com
Container image: ghcr.io/2gt-media-group-llc/mikrotik-manager:0.23.32-beta
Documentation: https://2gt-media-group-llc.github.io/mikrotik-manager/