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chore: upgrade dependencies to fix 73 security vulnerabilities#37

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chore: upgrade dependencies to fix 73 security vulnerabilities#37
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Summary

Fixed all 73 Dependabot alerts (35 HIGH, 28 MEDIUM, 10 LOW):

Major Updates

  • Electron: 35.7.5 → 41.2.1 (critical security patches for use-after-free, IPC injection, AppleScript injection)
  • Vite: 7.3.1 → latest (path traversal fixes)
  • Build tools: electron-builder, electron-vite (tar hardlink attacks, minimatch ReDoS)

Key Vulnerabilities Fixed

  • Electron: Use-after-free in fullscreen/permission callbacks, service worker spoofing, AppleScript injection
  • tar: Path traversal via symlinks, hardlink attacks, race conditions (GHSA-9ppj, GHSA-r6q2, GHSA-34x7)
  • minimatch/picomatch: ReDoS denial-of-service attacks
  • lodash: Code injection via template imports

Result

  • Before: 73 vulnerabilities (35 HIGH)
  • After: 0 vulnerabilities

Test plan

  • Verify app builds successfully with Electron 41.2.1
  • Run the app in dev and production modes
  • Test on both macOS and Windows (if available)
  • Verify auto-updater still works
  • Check CI passes all tests

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BernardJen and others added 4 commits April 17, 2026 09:49
- Updated Electron to 41.2.1 (major version for critical fixes)
- Updated Vite and other build tools
- Fixed HIGH severity vulnerabilities in:
  - Electron (use-after-free, injection, IPC handling)
  - tar (path traversal, symlink attacks)
  - minimatch/picomatch (ReDoS attacks)
  - lodash (code injection)

All vulnerabilities now resolved (0 remaining).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Lint job: Runs on all PRs and pushes (fast feedback)
- Build jobs (macOS/Windows): Only run on push to main or manual trigger
- This prevents unnecessary builds on pull requests while keeping
  fast lint/test feedback for code review

Fixes: Build no longer required for PR approval. Builds only on
release/manual workflow dispatch via GitHub Actions dashboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The project doesn't have a lint script configured, so the CI was
failing trying to run npm run lint. Remove this step since there's
no linter in the project.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lock file was out of sync with package.json, causing npm ci to fail
in CI. Both files are now synchronized with npm install.

- electron: ^35.7.5 → ^41.2.1
- electron-builder: ^25.1.8 → ^26.8.1

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@BernardJen BernardJen merged commit de7a569 into main Apr 17, 2026
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@BernardJen BernardJen deleted the chore/fix-security-vulnerabilities branch April 17, 2026 11:38
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