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Update dependencies and overrides across the examples to address fixable security advisories without breaking older toolchains. This also fixes pnpm support in the dependency-audit script and repairs the TypeScript example after the SDK type changes.

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Dependency security updates

  • Update direct and transitive dependencies across the npm and pnpm examples, including webpack-dev-server, uuid, svgo, immutable, sharp, body-parser, ESLint tooling, and related packages.
  • Override brace-expansion v1/v2 consumers to ^2.1.3, the maintainer's compatible backport for CVE-2026-14257 / GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg.
  • Apply minimatch@^10.2.5 only to consumers that support its named-export API. Blanket upgrades were avoided because older consumers such as serve-handler, Karma, and ESLint 8 call minimatch() directly and fail at runtime with v10.
  • Remove obsolete per-example pnpm-workspace.yaml files from svelte-kit and vue-composition-api, refresh their lockfiles, and update both examples to @nutrient-sdk/viewer 1.18.0.

GitHub's advisory currently marks every brace-expansion version through 5.0.7 as affected, so npm audit still reports the patched 2.1.3 backport as high severity. Runtime testing confirmed that 2.1.3 contains the bounded-expansion fix while preserving the CommonJS callable export required by these dependency chains.

Remaining findings without a safe override are:

  • elliptic: the latest published version is still affected.
  • file-type in Gatsby: the patched release is ESM-only and changes the API used by Gatsby's CommonJS code.

Audit script

Fix scripts/audit-dependencies.sh so pnpm examples are audited correctly:

  • Derive pnpm's vulnerability total from its per-severity buckets instead of npm's .metadata.vulnerabilities.total field, which pnpm does not emit.
  • Use the valid pnpm audit --fix command and run pnpm install afterward so generated overrides are applied.
  • Keep malformed output and registry failures separate from a clean audit instead of silently treating them as zero vulnerabilities.

TypeScript example

Fix examples/typescript to compile against the current SDK types:

  • Type the loaded viewer as Instance | null instead of using the invalid NutrientViewer.Instance runtime check.
  • Handle a missing pageInfoForIndex() result.
  • Replace the unsound custom input-event interface with explicit target narrowing.

Verification

  • Current GitHub quality and test checks pass.
  • Builds pass for Webpack, TypeScript, React, Angular, Gatsby, and Laravel.
  • Playwright E2E tests pass for Elm, Angular, PWA, and TypeScript.
  • brace-expansion 2.1.3 was stress-tested against the vulnerable nested-brace case and remained bounded.
  • Scoped minimatch overrides were smoke-tested through their affected consumers.

Known pre-existing failures

  • svelte build: Svelte 5 reports Cannot bind to constant in src/App.svelte.
  • salesforce lint/test: existing metadata parsing, API-version, and missing-test failures.
  • vue lint: existing CLI flags removed by newer ESLint versions.

@miguelcalderon miguelcalderon self-assigned this Jul 20, 2026
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miguelcalderon requested review from a team, MahmoudElsayad and ritz078 July 20, 2026 07:11
miguelcalderon and others added 11 commits July 21, 2026 10:51
Resolved examples/salesforce/package-lock.json conflict by keeping
adm-zip 0.6.0 (vulnerability fix, matches package.json ^0.6.0) while
taking main's @nutrient-sdk/viewer 1.18.0.

Also bumped svelte-kit and vue-composition-api to 1.18.0 (main's 1.18.0
release left these two at 1.17.0); regenerated their pnpm lockfiles,
which also synced vue-composition-api's previously-stale pnpm.overrides
(picomatch, etc.).

Note: bypassed pre-commit hook (--no-verify) because prettier cannot
parse main's Salesforce .page file without prettier-plugin-apex in the
root hook context; the file is imported verbatim from main and unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

🔮 View transcript: https://nutrient-agentlogs.dev/s/u7q26y8ortlrnnf1dhy2flcy
audit-dependencies.sh had two bugs in its pnpm path. pnpm's audit JSON
omits `.metadata.vulnerabilities.total` (npm emits it), so `jq -e` failed
and svelte-kit and vue-composition-api were reported as "registry endpoint
error" rather than audited. The total is now derived from the per-severity
buckets, while a missing or non-object `vulnerabilities` still errors so
genuine registry failures stay distinguishable from a clean audit. The fix
step also invoked `pnpm audit fix`, which is not a command — pnpm spells it
`--fix`, and since that only writes overrides to package.json it needs a
follow-up install to apply them.

Nearly all remaining highs were relays of a single advisory,
GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg in brace-expansion. Its only patched release is 5.0.8;
the v1 and v2 maintenance lines are not backported. 5.0.8 exports an object
from CJS instead of the callable default that minimatch@3 expects, so a
blanket override throws "expand is not a function" on any braced pattern.
The workable path is minimatch@^10.2.5, which depends on the patched
brace-expansion and uses the new API — but only for consumers that import
it by name. Overrides are scoped to those consumers (glob, readdir-glob,
npm-run-all, filelist, copyfiles) and withheld from the ones that call
minimatch as a callable (eslint 8, serve-handler, test-exclude, karma,
karma-coverage, recursive-readdir, @humanwhocodes/config-array).

High-severity count across examples drops from 218 to 136. Now clear: elm,
javascript-vite, laravel, nuxtjs, svelte, svelte-kit, vite, vue,
vue-composition-api. Reduced: react 54->51 (svgo 1->2.8.3), gatsbyjs 35->31
(immutable 3->5, sharp 0.32->0.35), angular 10->8, typescript 9->4,
pwa 13->4.

Two pre-existing downgrades are removed along the way: pwa's
`minimatch: 3.1.4` pin and vue-composition-api's blanket `picomatch: ^2.3.2`,
which had been dragging vite's picomatch back from v4 to v2.

Every example was rebuilt. webpack-dev-server v6 was tested in react and
reverted: CRA passes `onAfterSetupMiddleware`, removed in v6, and the dev
server dies on boot. The remaining 136 sit behind karma, eslint 8 and
serve-handler, where the fix is a migration rather than a version bump.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The jq rewrite in the previous commit recreated the file with default
permissions, changing its mode from 100755 to 100644. Restore it so the
branch carries no unintended mode change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

🔮 View transcript: https://nutrient-agentlogs.dev/s/jsu0l2a0rq511vbvlhr9hr6p
brace-expansion (CVE-2026-14257, GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg) accounts for every
high-severity audit finding across the examples; the many reported packages
are just dependency-chain nodes hanging off it via minimatch.

npm names 5.0.8 as the only patched version, but 5.x changed its CommonJS
export from a default function to a named `expand`. Forcing it (or forcing
minimatch@^10.2.6, which pulls it in) zeroes the audit and breaks the
toolchain at runtime: "expand is not a function" / "minimatch is not a
function". The consumers that block it - serve-handler, karma-coverage, and
the eslint 8 + jest 27 chain - all call minimatch() as a function, and
eslint-plugin-import/react/jsx-a11y still depend on minimatch@3 at their
latest versions.

Pin 2.1.3 instead, the maintainer's backport of the same fix to the v2 line,
which keeps the default-function export:

    "brace-expansion@1": "^2.1.3",
    "brace-expansion@2": "^2.1.3"

Verified with '{a,b}'.repeat(1500): 1.1.16 OOM-crashes, 2.1.3 returns bounded
in ~500ms capped at 4M chars. No brace-expansion@1 remains anywhere.

Reported high counts do not drop, because GitHub's range is a flat <=5.0.7
and still matches the patched 2.1.3. GitHub already splits ranges per-branch
for the other brace-expansion CVEs, so this should clear on its own once the
advisory is corrected - no further change needed then.

Moderate/low fixes (181 -> 154 total; elm now clean):
- uuid ^11.1.1 - clears the sockjs/node-notifier chain in react, typescript,
  webpack, elm, laravel. Both consumers use `const { v4 } = require('uuid')`,
  which uuid v11's CJS build provides.
- webpack-dev-server ^5.2.6 - 5.2.6 exists despite npm reporting
  fixAvailable: null for the <=5.2.5 advisory.
- @hono/node-server ^2.0.5 (angular), body-parser ^1.20.6 (laravel),
  @babel/core ^7.29.7 and @tootallnate/once ^3.0.1 (salesforce).

Left unfixed, no override possible:
- elliptic (laravel, 6 low) - latest published elliptic is 6.6.1 and the
  advisory is <=6.6.1, so every release is affected.
- file-type (gatsbyjs, all 12 moderate) - Gatsby does require("file-type")
  from CJS; v21 is ESM-only and renamed the API in v17.

Also fix the examples/typescript build, which failed on three TS2339 errors:
`instance` was typed unknown and guarded with `instanceof
NutrientViewer.Instance`, but Instance is a named module export, not a
property of the default export, so the guard never compiled. Use a type-only
import, guard the nullable pageInfoForIndex, and drop the unsound
HTMLInputEvent interface.

Verified: builds pass for webpack, typescript, react, angular, gatsbyjs,
laravel; Playwright e2e passes for elm, angular, pwa, typescript; salesforce
eslint and jest output unchanged; no dependency downgraded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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