Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for express rate limit issues
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A critical vulnerability in express-rate-limit versions prior to 8.2.2 allowed attackers to bypass per-client rate limiting on dual-stack servers by exploiting incorrect IPv6 subnet masking. When IPv4 clients connected through IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (like ::ffff:192.0.2.1), the library failed to properly identify unique clients, enabling unlimited requests that could lead to denial of service. The fix upgrades express-rate-limit to 8.2.2 and its dependency ip-address to 10.1.0, implementing