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 remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38355: Fixed socket.io: unhandled 'error' event (bsc#1226967)
    - CVE-2024-38998: Fixed requirejs: prototype pollution via function config (bsc#1227248)
    - CVE-2024-38999: Fixed requirejs: prototype pollution via function s.contexts._.configure (bsc#1227252)
    - CVE-2024-39338: Fixed axios: server-side request forgery due to requests for path relative URLs being     processed as protocol relative URLs in axios (bsc#1229423)
    - CVE-2024-4067: Fixed micromatch: vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)     (bsc#1224366)
    - CVE-2024-4068: Fixed braces: fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to     Memory Exhaustion (bsc#1224295)
    - CVE-2024-43788: Fixed webpack: DOM clobbering gadget in AutoPublicPathRuntimeModule could lead to XSS     (bsc#1229861)
    - CVE-2024-48948: Fixed elliptic: ECDSA signature verification error due to leading zero may reject     legitimate transactions in elliptic (bsc#1231684)
    - CVE-2024-48949: Fixed elliptic: Missing Validation in Elliptic's EDDSA Signature Verification     (bsc#1231564)
    - CVE-2024-9014: Fixed OAuth2 issue that could lead to information leak (bsc#1230928)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the a5e13973-6c75-11ef-858b-23eeba13701a advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-43788)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
209968	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pgadmin4 (SUSE-SU-2024:3771-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
206743	FreeBSD : forgejo -- multiple vulnerabilities (a5e13973-6c75-11ef-858b-23eeba13701a)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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