fix(deps): patch axios security alerts and deduplicate dependencies

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Description

Upgrade Axios 1.18.0 → 1.20.0 to address all twelve Dependabot alerts (#383–#394; CVE-2026-101898–101909). Deduplicate compatible form-data, follow-redirects, and hasown versions without overrides. Overlaps #4354, with deduplication included.

Production risk

Low expected compatibility risk, but broad production impact. After backport, a stable 4.34 release updates the 4 and 4.34 CDN aliases. Apps using these aliases receive the change on their next bundle load. A regression could affect loading, autosave, attachments, submission, session refresh, or PDF requests.

Axios ships in the browser bundle; the three deduplicated dependencies do not. Current calls use explicit methods and preserve interceptor config/headers. No complete exploit path was identified, but upstream fixes are available for all alerts. The main browser behavior change to watch is navigation-cancelled XHR now rejecting with ECONNABORTED; this can affect errors and retries. Upstream changes.

Before release, verify backport CI/Cypress and smoke-test saving/reloading, attachments, submission, session expiry, PDF, and navigation during requests. The existing rollback workflow can restore the previous release to the floating aliases; loaded pages need a reload. Rollback temporarily restores the vulnerabilities.

Verification/QA

• Passed: immutable install, targeted dedupe check, type checks, lint, production build, and 165 unit suites (3,605 tests).
• Passed: unmocked jsdom XHR checks for JSON requests, raw File uploads, PDF trace headers, and HTTP errors.
• Remaining: real-browser/backend validation of the backported release. Most unit tests mock Axios.
• No documentation, accessibility, or Studio changes required. Backport recommended.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The axios dependency version in package.json changed from 1.18.0 to 1.20.0.

Changes

Axios dependency update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Axios version update package.json	The dependency version changed from 1.18.0 to 1.20.0.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4069d

The Axios dependency update is paired with its lockfile resolution, and no concrete merge-blocking regression is established. Proceed with normal checks.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4069d

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: package.json

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — package.json (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in package.json: The axios dependency version changed from 1.18.0 to 1.20.0.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Axios dependency security update and dependency deduplication. It is concise and relevant to the main changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides a detailed change summary, production risk assessment, verification results, remaining validation, and impact on documentation, accessibility, and Studio. It omits explicit Re…

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