Update dependency fast-xml-parser to v4 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
fast-xml-parser	^3.21.1 -> ^4.0.0

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2023-26920

Impact

As a part of this vulnerability, user was able to se code using __proto__ as a tag or attribute name.

const { XMLParser, XMLBuilder, XMLValidator} = require("fast-xml-parser");

let XMLdata = "<__proto__><polluted>hacked</polluted></__proto__>"

const parser = new XMLParser();
let jObj = parser.parse(XMLdata);

console.log(jObj.polluted) // should return hacked

Patches

The problem has been patched in v4.1.2

Workarounds

User can check for "proto" in the XML string before parsing it to the parser.

References

https://gist.github.com/Sudistark/a5a45bd0804d522a1392cb5023aa7ef7

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Release Notes

NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser (fast-xml-parser)

v4.1.2

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v4.1.1

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v4.1.0

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v4.0.15

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v4.0.14

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v4.0.13

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v4.0.12

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v4.0.11

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v4.0.10

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v4.0.9

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v4.0.8

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v4.0.7

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v4.0.6

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v4.0.5

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v4.0.0: v4

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• Generating different combined, parser only, builder only, validator only browser bundles
• Keeping cjs modules as they can be imported in cjs and esm modules both. Otherwise refer esm branch.

4.0.0-beta.8 / 2021-12-13

• call tagValueProcessor for stop nodes

4.0.0-beta.7 / 2021-12-09

• fix Validator bug when an attribute has no value but '=' only
• XML Builder should suppress unpaired tags by default.
• documents update for missing features
• refactoring to use Object.assign
• refactoring to remove repeated code

4.0.0-beta.6 / 2021-12-05

• Support PI Tags processing
• Support suppressBooleanAttributes by XML Builder for attributes with value true.

4.0.0-beta.5 / 2021-12-04

• fix: when a tag with name "attributes"

4.0.0-beta.4 / 2021-12-02

• Support HTML document parsing
• skip stop nodes parsing when building the XML from JS object
• Support external entites without DOCTYPE
• update dev dependency: strnum v1.0.5 to fix long number issue

4.0.0-beta.3 / 2021-11-30

• support global stopNodes expression like "*.stop"
• support self-closing and paired unpaired tags
• fix: CDATA should not be parsed.
• Fix typings for XMLBuilder (#​396)(By Anders Emil Salvesen)
• supports XML entities, HTML entities, DOCTYPE entities

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.2 / 2021-11-19

• rename attrMap to attibutes in parser output when preserveOrder:true
• supports unpairedTags

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.1 / 2021-11-18

• Parser returns an array now
  • to make the structure common
  • and to return root level detail
• renamed cdataTagName to cdataPropName
• Added commentPropName
• fix typings

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.0 / 2021-11-16

• Name change of many configuration properties.
  • attrNodeName to attributesGroupName
  • attrValueProcessor to attributeValueProcessor
  • parseNodeValue to parseTagValue
  • ignoreNameSpace to removeNSPrefix
  • numParseOptions to numberParseOptions
  • spelling correction for suppressEmptyNode
• Name change of cli and browser bundle to fxparser
• isArray option is added to parse a tag into array
• preserveOrder option is added to render XML in such a way that the result js Object maintains the order of properties same as in XML.
• Processing behaviour of tagValueProcessor and attributeValueProcessor are changes with extra input parameters
• j2xparser is renamed to XMLBuilder.
• You need to build XML parser instance for given options first before parsing XML.
• fix #​327, #​336: throw error when extra text after XML content
• fix #​330: attribute value can have '\n',
• fix #​350: attributes can be separated by '\n' from tagname

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