chore(deps): force tar >=7.5.21 and shell-quote >=1.9.0 to clear CVEs - #424

What

Clears three reported dependency vulnerabilities in yarn.lock by forcing two entries in the root resolutions block, following the pattern already established there for security force-bumps (form-data, pbkdf2, elliptic, braces, nth-check, …). 2 files, 2 added resolutions.

• package.json — adds "tar": ">=7.5.21" and "shell-quote": ">=1.9.0".
• yarn.lock — tar 6.2.1 → 7.5.21, shell-quote 1.8.1 → 1.10.0, plus tar 7's transitive deps (@isaacs/fs-minipass, chownr@3, minipass@7, minizlib@3, yallist@5) replacing tar 6's.

     "http-proxy-middleware": ">=2.0.9",
-    "nth-check": ">=2.0.1"
+    "nth-check": ">=2.0.1",
+    "tar": ">=7.5.21",
+    "shell-quote": ">=1.9.0"
   }

Why

Three advisories, all denial-of-service — an attacker-supplied archive or command string that costs the process orders of magnitude more CPU/memory than its size implies, stalling or exhausting the host:

We were on tar@6.2.1 (via ^6.1.11 / ^6.1.2) and shell-quote@1.8.1 (via ^1.4.2 / ^1.6.1 / ^1.7.3 / ^1.8.1). There is no patched tar 6.x — the vulnerable range covers all of 6.x — so this is a forced 6 → 7 major bump.

The floor is 7.5.21, not 7.5.19

A fourth advisory found while checking the above, GHSA-r292-9mhp-454m (MODERATE, published 2026-07-24), covers tar <= 7.5.20 and is first patched in 7.5.21. A >=7.5.19 floor satisfying only the three reported CVEs would still have permitted a vulnerable version, so the floor is set past all four.

Why 7.5.21 and not the latest 7.5.22

Yarn resolved 7.5.21 rather than 7.5.22 (published 2026-07-24) because the lockfile was generated under the 3-day npmMinimalAgeGate from #421 — our own supply-chain gate held back the fresher release, exactly as intended. 7.5.21 clears all four advisories, so the gate cost nothing here. The >= floor means future installs float upward on their own without another PR, once 7.5.22 ages past the window.

Safety — no behavior change

Both packages are dev-toolchain-only transitives. Neither appears in any published package's runtime dependencies, so nothing ships to consumers:

• tar ← cacache@17/@18, node-gyp
• shell-quote ← browserify@17 (×2), launch-editor, outpipe, react-dev-utils

cacache and node-gyp pin tar@^6, so the forced major needed a real smoke test rather than an assumption. Everything is green:

The lockfile was additionally checked against a config without the age gate, which resolved identically — so the 7.5.21 pin is stable on its own merits, not an artifact of the gate holding back 7.5.22.

Verification evidence

Exactly one descriptor each, no vulnerable version anywhere in the lockfile:

$ grep -nE '^"?(tar|shell-quote)@' yarn.lock
26653:"shell-quote@npm:>=1.9.0":
27851:"tar@npm:>=7.5.21":

$ grep -nE 'resolution: "(tar|shell-quote)@' yarn.lock
26655:  resolution: "shell-quote@npm:1.10.0"
27853:  resolution: "tar@npm:7.5.21"

Installed on disk: tar 7.5.21, shell-quote 1.10.0. Lockfile diff is tightly scoped at 51 insertions / 36 deletions — only the two packages and their transitives.

Notes for reviewers

• Root yarn lint (which chains all 13 packages) reports 1674 prettier errors in packages/types/src/config/{index,types.gen}.ts. Those are pre-existing and auto-generated — byte-identical to main, and this PR touches no source. CI lints only packages/js-sdk, which passes.
• yarn build has a side-effect of rewriting peer-dep ranges in 11 workspace package.json files. Reverted here — that is a separate concern with its own chore(deps): sync workspace peer dep ranges commit. Only root package.json and yarn.lock are staged.
• yarn test:browser was not run locally (needs Playwright browsers plus the CONVERT_STAGING_SDK_KEY* secrets); it runs in the pass-qa job.
• This addresses only these three CVEs. The repo has a large open Dependabot backlog that warrants a separate sweep.

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