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Refs #2461 (PER-11036)

A fresh npm install @percy/cli@1.32.11 audits with four root advisories. Two of them are ours to fix and this PR clears both; the other two have no upstream patch yet (details at the bottom).

Package (path) Advisory This PR
pdfjs-dist 2.16.105 via @percy/cli-pdf GHSA-wgrm-67xf-hhpq (CVE-2024-4367), high: JS execution from a crafted PDF. Reachable, pdf.js renders customer PDFs in the discovery browser. bump to ^4.10.38
fast-xml-parser 4.5.6 via @percy/core GHSA-gh4j-gqv2-49f6, moderate: entity injection in XMLBuilder. Not reachable (core only uses XMLParser with processEntities: false), but no 4.x release will ever clear it. bump to ^5.11.2
basic-ftp via pac-proxy-agent → get-uri GHSA-c475-qrg2-pj4r, high not fixable here, see below
braces via micromatch / fast-glob GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm, high not fixable, no patched version exists

Changes

pdfjs-dist 2 → 4 (ESM migration). pdf.js 4 ships ES modules only, so the old path of reading pdf.js off disk and injecting it into the page as a function body cannot work any more.

  • cli-pdf/src/assets.js now exposes libFile: 'pdf.mjs' / workerFile: 'pdf.worker.mjs' (served from legacy/build/) instead of libPath.
  • New loadLibrary browser script in cli-pdf/src/browser-scripts.js does window.pdfjsLib = await import(${origin}/pdfjs/${libFile}) from the loopback asset server; openDocument now reads window.pdfjsLib and points workerSrc at the .mjs worker, which pdf.js 4 spawns as a module worker.
  • core/src/pdf-rasterize.js drops the fs read + new Function injection and runs loadLibrary then openDocument via page.eval.
  • Tests updated; one fixture added (cli-pdf/test/fixtures/pdfjs/pdf.mjs, loaded through a file: origin). The now-dead "falls back to window.pdfjsLib" spec is removed.

fast-xml-parser 4 → 5. Only XMLParser is used (core/src/maestro-hierarchy.js); API unchanged for our call. Existing maestro hierarchy + parity specs cover it.

.yarnrc with --ignore-engines true (bridge, remove with the Node 20 upgrade). pdfjs-dist 4.10 declares engines.node >= 20 and fast-xml-parser 5.8+ pulls xml-naming (>= 16). Yarn classic hard-fails yarn install on a transitive engines mismatch, and every CI job still runs on Node 14, so without this the PR cannot even install. Neither package executes under Node here (pdf.js is shipped to Chromium), so the engine field is a toolchain gate only. Verified both ways under Node 14.18.3: a forced install without the file fails with pdfjs-dist@4.10.38: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=20", and succeeds with it. Once #2386 (Node 20 upgrade) lands this file should be deleted.

Regenerated PDF rasterization goldens (test/regression/assets/pdfs/expected/). The Regression job compares rendered pages byte-for-byte, and pdf.js 4 rasterizes image edges and glyph hinting slightly differently from 2.x, so the first CI run failed Track P on two pages. Both platform sets were regenerated on the pinned Chromium 143.0.7499.0: linux-x64 on the CI runner itself (via a temporary UPDATE_PDF_GOLDENS=1 + artifact-upload step, reverted in the last commit), darwin-arm64 locally with the real pinned Mac_Arm/1536376 build rather than the Chrome shim. Old vs new, measured with the test's own comparator:

Golden Pixels changed Max channel delta What it is
linux multipage-sample-pdf p1-3 0 0 byte-identical
linux single-page-sample p1 151 (16x25 box) 255 one-pixel hinting shift on an "fi" ligature
linux jack-sparrow-resume p1 9434 157 photo circle-clip edge and logo bitmaps
darwin text pages (4) 309-432 ≤6 anti-aliasing noise
darwin jack-sparrow-resume p1 9303 166 same photo/logo bitmaps

Layout, glyphs and page sizes are unchanged on every page; I eyeballed the resume page and the ligature region side by side.

Verification (Node 14.18.3, local)

  • @percy/cli-pdf test:coverage: 45/45, 100% coverage.
  • @percy/core pdf-snapshot.test.js against a real Chromium: 40/40.
  • @percy/core unit/maestro-hierarchy.test.js + .parity.test.js: 162/162.
  • eslint packages/cli-pdf packages/core/src/pdf-rasterize.js: clean.
  • Built cli-pdf dist confirms Babel leaves the dynamic import() intact.
  • yarn test:regression:pdf on darwin-arm64 with the pinned Chromium 143: TRACK P PASSED, bytes identical on a second run. The CI Regression job on this branch passed on the regenerated linux-x64 set.
  • Simulated downstream audit with these versions overridden into a fresh @percy/cli@1.32.11 install: only basic-ftp and braces remain.

Notes for reviewers

  • pdfjs-dist 4.x adds an optional native dependency, @napi-rs/canvas (~26 MB per platform), that Percy never uses. Downstream installs pull it unless they pass --omit=optional. Worth knowing; I did not try to suppress it since npm has no clean way to drop a transitive optional dep.
  • Overlaps with fix(deps): clear audit advisories by dropping rimraf/minimatch and bumping fast-xml-parser #2356 (fast-xml-parser 4.5.7 + rimraf removal) on core/package.json and yarn.lock; whichever merges second needs a trivial lockfile rebase.

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  • Improvements
    • Updated PDF processing to use a newer PDF engine, with its library and worker loaded as browser modules.
    • Improved how the PDF engine is loaded during PDF rasterization.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Refreshed expected PDF regression results to match the updated rendering output.

Shivanshu-07 and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 09:13
…sories

A fresh install of @percy/cli audits with four root advisories (#2461).
This clears the two Percy can fix on its own:

- @percy/cli-pdf: pdfjs-dist ^2.16.105 -> ^4.10.38 (GHSA-wgrm-67xf-hhpq,
  arbitrary JS on a malicious PDF; patched in 4.2.67). pdf.js 4 ships only ES
  modules, so the rasterizer no longer reads legacy/build/pdf.js and injects it
  as a classic script body. The page now imports legacy/build/pdf.mjs from the
  loopback asset server (new loadLibrary browser script) and pdf.js spawns
  pdf.worker.mjs as a module worker from the same directory. The asset
  descriptor exposes libFile/workerFile instead of libPath.
- @percy/core: fast-xml-parser ^4.4.1 -> ^5.11.2 (GHSA-gh4j-gqv2-49f6, XMLBuilder
  CDATA/comment injection; patched in 5.7.0). Only XMLParser is used, with
  processEntities: false, so the advisory was not reachable, but 4.x can never
  clear it.

Left as-is because no fix exists upstream yet: basic-ftp (GHSA-c475-qrg2-pj4r,
patched 6.2.1, but every get-uri release still pins ^5.x) and braces
(GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm, no patched version published).

Toolchain note: pdfjs-dist 4.10.38 declares engines.node >= 20 and
fast-xml-parser 5.8+ pulls xml-naming (>= 16); pdf.js never runs in Node here,
but yarn enforces engines, so this needs the Node 20 CI upgrade (#2386) to
install on CI. Verified locally under Node 14 with --ignore-engines:
@percy/cli-pdf 45/45 at 100% coverage, core pdf-snapshot 40/40 against a real
Chromium, core maestro-hierarchy 162/162.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s-dist 4 / fast-xml-parser 5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PDF.js dependency moves to version 4.x. The browser loading path now imports its ES module from the asset server and configures the module worker. PDF rasterization uses this loader. Yarn engine checks and the fast-xml-parser dependency range also change.

Changes: PDF.js ES module loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define pdf.js module assets and browser loading
packages/cli-pdf/package.json, packages/cli-pdf/src/assets.js, packages/cli-pdf/src/browser-scripts.js, packages/cli-pdf/src/index.js, packages/cli-pdf/test/assets.test.js, packages/cli-pdf/test/browser-scripts.test.js, packages/cli-pdf/test/fixtures/pdfjs/pdf.mjs
The dependency updates to pdfjs-dist 4.x. Assets now identify pdf.mjs and pdf.worker.mjs. Browser scripts import the library when needed, use window.pdfjsLib, and configure the worker filename. Tests cover asset names and loading behavior.
Connect PDF rasterization to module loading
packages/core/src/pdf-rasterize.js, test/regression/assets/pdfs/expected/*/manifest.json
rasterizePdf uses loadLibrary and passes the worker filename to openDocument instead of reading and injecting pdf.js source. Regression manifests contain updated generation timestamps, byte counts, and hashes.

Yarn engine-check setting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Set Yarn engine-check behavior
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XML parser dependency update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update fast-xml-parser range
packages/core/package.json
The fast-xml-parser dependency range changes from ^4.4.1 to ^5.11.2.

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  rasterizePdf->>loadLibrary: Pass asset origin and libFile
  loadLibrary->>AssetServer: Import pdf.mjs if window.pdfjsLib is absent
  AssetServer-->>loadLibrary: Return pdf.js module
  rasterizePdf->>openDocument: Pass asset origin and workerFile
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Shivanshu-07 and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 17:39
… pdf.js 4

pdf.js 4 anti-aliases image edges and glyphs slightly differently from 2.x, so the byte-for-byte goldens no longer match. Regenerated on the pinned Chromium 143.0.7499.0 for each platform; text-only pages differ by a few hundred pixels at channel delta <= 6, the resume page only on its photo and logo bitmaps. Layout and glyphs are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The linux-x64 goldens it produced are committed in the previous commit; the Regression job goes back to asserting on them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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