Webpack up to 5.93.x cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Webpack up to 5.93.x. Impacted is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-43788. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Webpack up to 5.93.x and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset. The webpack developers have discovered a DOM Clobbering vulnerability in Webpack’s `AutoPublicPathRuntimeModule`. The DOM Clobbering gadget in the module can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) in web pages where scriptless attacker-controlled HTML elements (e.g., an `img` tag with an unsanitized `name` attribute) are present. Real-world exploitation of this gadget has been observed in the Canvas LMS which allows a XSS attack to happen through a javascript code compiled by Webpack (the vulnerable part is from Webpack). DOM Clobbering is a type of code-reuse attack where the attacker first embeds a piece of non-script, seemingly benign HTML markups in the webpage (e.g. through a post or comment) and leverages the gadgets (pieces of js code) living in the existing javascript code to transform it into executable code. This vulnerability can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) on websites that include Webpack-generated files and allow users to inject certain scriptless HTML tags with improperly sanitized name or id attributes. This issue has been addressed in release version 5.94.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-43788 since 08/16/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209968 (SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pgadmin4 (SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.94.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 955e057abc6cc83cbc3fa1e1ef67a49758bf5a61 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (209968) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3250). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Atlassian Bitbucket
• Atlassian Confluence

Productinfo

Name

• Webpack

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31
• 5.32
• 5.33
• 5.34
• 5.35
• 5.36
• 5.37
• 5.38
• 5.39
• 5.40
• 5.41
• 5.42
• 5.43
• 5.44
• 5.45
• 5.46
• 5.47
• 5.48
• 5.49
• 5.50
• 5.51
• 5.52
• 5.53
• 5.54
• 5.55
• 5.56
• 5.57
• 5.58
• 5.59
• 5.60
• 5.61
• 5.62
• 5.63
• 5.64
• 5.65
• 5.66
• 5.67
• 5.68
• 5.69
• 5.70
• 5.71
• 5.72
• 5.73
• 5.74
• 5.75
• 5.76
• 5.77
• 5.78
• 5.79
• 5.80
• 5.81
• 5.82
• 5.83
• 5.84
• 5.85
• 5.86
• 5.87
• 5.88
• 5.89
• 5.90
• 5.91
• 5.92
• 5.93

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Discussion