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fix(cli): pin clipboardy to ~5.2.x#21009

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fix(cli): pin clipboardy to ~5.2.x#21009
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Summary

ping clipboardy to 5.2.x since 5.3.x is getting flagged as malware.

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Fixes #19445

@scidomino scidomino marked this pull request as ready for review March 3, 2026 19:21
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Hello, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request addresses a critical security vulnerability by explicitly pinning the clipboardy dependency to a safe version range for the CLI package. This proactive measure prevents the inclusion of a known malware-flagged version, thereby enhancing the overall security and stability of the application's dependencies.

Highlights

  • Security Fix: The clipboardy dependency has been pinned to the ~5.2.x version range to mitigate a security concern where 5.3.x versions were flagged as malware.
  • Dependency Updates: The package-lock.json file has been extensively updated to reflect the pinned clipboardy version and its new transitive dependencies, while also removing several outdated or unused packages.
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  • package-lock.json
    • Pinned clipboardy to version 5.2.1 to avoid malware flagged versions.
    • Updated execa to version 9.6.1.
    • Introduced new transitive dependencies such as clipboard-image, powershell-utils, macos-version, run-jxa, subsume, unique-string, and crypto-random-string.
    • Removed several outdated or unused transitive dependencies like array-flatten, express/node_modules/cookie, express/node_modules/statuses, finalhandler/node_modules/statuses, and utils-merge.
    • Adjusted peer dependency flags for various packages.
  • packages/cli/package.json
    • Updated the clipboardy dependency range from ^5.0.0 to ~5.2.0.
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Code Review

This pull request pins the clipboardy dependency to address a security vulnerability. However, my review indicates that this dependency may be unused and could be removed entirely. Removing the dependency would be a more robust solution, simplifying the project and eliminating a potential source of future issues. Please see the detailed comment on packages/cli/package.json.

Note: Security Review has been skipped due to the limited scope of the PR.

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Size Change: +64.6 kB (+0.25%)

Total Size: 25.9 MB

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./bundle/gemini.js 25.4 MB +64.6 kB (+0.26%)
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./bundle/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-devtools/dist/client/main.js 221 kB
./bundle/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-devtools/dist/src/_client-assets.js 227 kB
./bundle/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-devtools/dist/src/index.js 11.5 kB
./bundle/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-devtools/dist/src/types.js 132 B
./bundle/sandbox-macos-permissive-open.sb 890 B
./bundle/sandbox-macos-permissive-proxied.sb 1.31 kB
./bundle/sandbox-macos-restrictive-open.sb 3.36 kB
./bundle/sandbox-macos-restrictive-proxied.sb 3.56 kB
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./bundle/sandbox-macos-strict-proxied.sb 5.02 kB

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@gemini-cli gemini-cli bot added the priority/p1 Important and should be addressed in the near term. label Mar 3, 2026
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lgtm

@scidomino scidomino enabled auto-merge March 3, 2026 20:58
@scidomino scidomino added this pull request to the merge queue Mar 3, 2026
Merged via the queue into main with commit d6c5604 Mar 3, 2026
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