diff --git a/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 9e3f849a897f..4a0e6f0f16b7 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.18.1-debian-11-r41" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="4.18.1-debian-11-r42" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/express" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="express" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     tar -zxf express-4.18.1-153-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
     rm -rf express-4.18.1-153-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz express-4.18.1-153-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
-    rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 
 COPY rootfs /
 RUN mkdir -p /dist /app /.npm /.config /.cache /.local && chmod g+rwX /dist /app /.npm /.config /.cache /.local
diff --git a/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages b/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
index c9577647443b..2c915f265c9d 100755
--- a/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
+++ b/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ until [ $n -gt $max ]; do
     echo "apt failed, retrying"
     n=$(($n + 1))
 done
-rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
diff --git a/bitnami/express/README.md b/bitnami/express/README.md
index 3950d2dc4177..8a061e260385 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/express/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ $ docker-compose up
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`4`, `4-debian-11`, `4.18.1`, `4.18.1-debian-11-r41`, `latest` (4/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`4`, `4-debian-11`, `4.18.1`, `4.18.1-debian-11-r42`, `latest` (4/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/express/4/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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