Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for randomness issues
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A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-7783) was discovered in the widely-used `form-data` npm package, where an unsafe random function was used to generate multipart boundary strings, making them predictable and potentially exploitable by attackers. The fix upgrades `form-data` to patched versions (2.5.4, 3.0.4, and 4.0.4) across all supported major releases. Developers using any version of `form-data` prior to these patches should upgrade immediately to protect their applications from boundary pre