[Snyk] Security upgrade express from 4.17.1 to 4.22.0

[lcrowther-snyk]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the npm dependencies of this project.

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• package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-15789761	50

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[lcrowther-snyk]

This minor version upgrade for Express consists primarily of security patches, bug fixes, and minor feature additions. No major breaking API changes are documented between versions 4.17.1 and 4.22.0.

However, the target version 4.22.0 contains an unintentional behavioral change. It introduced an "erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser". While the associated security advisory (CVE-2024-51999) was rejected, this change could potentially affect how your application handles complex query parameters.

This issue was immediately corrected and reverted in version 4.22.1.

Recommendation: Due to the unintentional change in the query parser, it is recommended to either verify that your application's query parameter handling is unaffected or, preferably, skip this version and upgrade directly to express@4.22.1 or higher.

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