fix: Bump body-parser from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0

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Issue

Closes #3422

Bumps the direct production dependency body-parser from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0 to fix the Dependabot security alert GHSA-v422-hmwv-36x6 / CVE-2026-12590 (low, vulnerable >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.0, patched in 2.3.0). An invalid limit option value silently disabled the request body size limit. The dashboard does not pass a limit option, so it uses the default 100kb limit with both versions.

Approach

body-parser is used directly in Parse-Dashboard/Authentication.js (urlencoded({ extended: true }) for the login form). It is also used through Express 5, whose express.json() and express.urlencoded() come from the same body-parser copy, in Parse-Dashboard/app.js and Parse-Dashboard/browser-control/BrowserControlAPI.js. No option other than extended is passed.

Tests. No existing test checked that a request body is parsed, so the first commit adds src/lib/tests/RequestBodyParsing.test.js. It covers:

• a JSON body on the agent endpoint
• a URL-encoded body with charset=UTF-8 on the agent endpoint, which is what the dashboard's AJAX helper (src/lib/AJAX.js) sends
• the URL-encoded login form with valid credentials (redirect to /apps) and invalid credentials (redirect to /login), with the CSRF token read from the _csrf form field

The tests pass with 2.2.2 and with 2.3.0.

Lock file changes:

• node_modules/body-parser 2.2.2 → 2.3.0
• node_modules/type-is 2.0.1 → 2.1.0 (shared with express)
• New: node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/content-type 2.1.0 and node_modules/type-is/node_modules/content-type 2.1.0
• node_modules/content-type stays at 1.0.5 for express and @apollo/server (both require ^1.0.5)
• raw-body 3.0.2, iconv-lite 0.7.2, http-errors 2.0.1 and qs 6.16.0 already satisfy the new ranges and are unchanged

Changes

• 2.3.0:
  • Security fix for GHSA-v422-hmwv-36x6: invalid limit values (for example unparseable strings or NaN) now throw when the middleware is created, instead of silently disabling the size limit. null and undefined fall back to the default 100kb (fix: improve limit option validation expressjs/body-parser#698).
  • Static exports instead of lazy getters, for ESM compatibility (Improve ESM compatibility expressjs/body-parser#697), and subpath exports for the individual parsers.
  • Internal refactors (perf(urlencoded): move empty-body guard to avoid extra function closure expressjs/body-parser#647, perf: eliminate conditional check in json strict mode hot path expressjs/body-parser#651, refactor: switch to const/let and enable eslint no-var rule expressjs/body-parser#729).
  • Dependencies: content-type@^2.0.0, type-is@^2.1.0, http-errors@^2.0.1, iconv-lite@^0.7.2, qs@^6.15.2, raw-body@^3.0.2 (deps: update dependencies to latest versions expressjs/body-parser#708, Upgrade "content-type" expressjs/body-parser#728, chore: updated deps to latest expressjs/body-parser#733).
• content-type 2.0.0 (sub-dependency, major version): rewritten with lenient parsing. parse no longer throws on a malformed header, and a repeated parameter now keeps its first value instead of its last. type-is 2.1.0 still validates the media type itself, but malformed parameters no longer cause a body to be skipped. For example, a body sent with Content-Type: application/json; foo was left unparsed with 2.2.2 and is parsed with 2.3.0. Requests with a well-formed Content-Type header, which is what browsers and the dashboard's own client send, behave the same.

Breaking Changes

None. The stricter limit validation does not affect the dashboard, because it passes no limit option.

Code Changes Required

None. The upgrade is a drop-in replacement. This PR only adds tests.

Tasks

• Add tests

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Added coverage for requests with JSON and URL-encoded bodies, including validation when an agent request omits its model name.
  • Added checks for login redirects with valid and incorrect credentials.
• Maintenance
  • Updated request parsing components. No user-facing behavior changes are described in this release.

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The pull request upgrades body-parser from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0 and adds tests for JSON and URL-encoded agent requests and URL-encoded login requests.

Changes

Request parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Upgrade body-parser dependency package.json, package-lock.json	Updates body-parser to 2.3.0 and records updated dependency versions and package metadata in the lockfile.
Test request body parsing src/lib/tests/RequestBodyParsing.test.js	Adds request helpers and test-server setup. Tests check that agent requests without a model name return 400, and that URL-encoded login requests redirect to /apps with valid credentials or /login with an incorrect password.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d8312

The upgrade is mergeable, but the agent tests should verify that JSON and URL-encoded message bodies are parsed so they can catch a future regression.

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✅ Passed checks (7 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title starts with the allowed prefix "fix:" and uses a capitalized first word, "Bump". It accurately describes the dependency upgrade.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required Pull Request, Issue, Approach, and Tasks sections. It explains the security fix, implementation, dependency changes, and added tests. The completed test task is d…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR updates the direct body-parser dependency from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0 in package.json. The lockfile summary records the matching package and transitive dependency updates. This includes the rel…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #3422. The package and lockfile changes implement the dependency upgrade and its transitive updates. The request-body parsing tests verify the dashboard integration aff…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files. (2 skipped: 2 …
Security Check	✅ Passed	No security vulnerability is introduced by the changed files. The PR upgrades the direct runtime dependency from body-parser 2.2.2 to 2.3.0. The lockfile resolves Express and Apollo's compatible body-…
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177-201: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The authenticated request reaches agentHandler after both body parsers run. However, the handler returns 400 Model name is required when req.body.modelName is absent. A failed parser would also leave req.body.modelName absent, so these assertions do not prove that message was parsed. The tests have a material coverage gap for their request-parsing objective.

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In `@src/lib/tests/RequestBodyParsing.test.js` around lines 177 - 201, Update the
JSON and URL-encoded request-parsing tests to assert an outcome that depends on
the parsed message, not just the missing model name. Ensure each test
distinguishes successful body parsing from a parser failure while keeping the
requests authenticated.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/lib/tests/RequestBodyParsing.test.js`:
- Around line 177-201: Update the JSON and URL-encoded request-parsing tests to
assert an outcome that depends on the parsed message, not just the missing model
name. Ensure each test distinguishes successful body parsing from a parser
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