Fluid Attacks Database

Description

serve-static vulnerable to template injection that can lead to XSS

Impact

passing untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to redirect() may execute untrusted code

Patches

this issue is patched in serve-static 1.16.0

Workarounds

users are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version of express, but otherwise can workaround this issue by making sure any untrusted inputs are safe, ideally by validating them against an explicit allowlist

Details

successful exploitation of this vector requires the following:

The attacker MUST control the input to response.redirect()

express MUST NOT redirect before the template appears

the browser MUST NOT complete redirection before:

the user MUST click on the link in the template

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	node-serve-static	=1.14.1-3 \|\| =1.14.2+~1.13.10-1 \|\| =1.14.2+~1.13.10-2 \|\| =1.15.0+~1.15.0-1 \|\| =1.15.0+~1.15.7-1 \|\| =2.1.0+~1.15.7-1 \|\| =2.1.0+~1.15.7-2 \|\| =2.2.0+~1.15.9-1 \|\| =2.2.0+~2.2.0-1 \|\| =2.2.1+~2.2.0-1	-
debian 13	node-serve-static	>=0 <2.1.0+~1.15.7-1	2.1.0+~1.15.7-1
debian 12	node-serve-static	=1.15.0+~1.15.0-1 \|\| =1.15.0+~1.15.7-1 \|\| =2.1.0+~1.15.7-1 \|\| =2.1.0+~1.15.7-2 \|\| =2.2.0+~1.15.9-1 \|\| =2.2.0+~2.2.0-1 \|\| =2.2.1+~2.2.0-1	-
debian 14	node-serve-static	>=0 <2.1.0+~1.15.7-1	2.1.0+~1.15.7-1
npm	serve-static	>=0 <1.16.0 \|\| >=2.0.0 <2.1.0	1.16.0, 2.1.0
rpm rhel7	thunderbird	-	-
rpm rhel6	firefox	-	-
rpm rhel6	thunderbird	-	-

Aliases

1. CVE-2024-438002. NVD-2024-438003. OSV-DEBIAN-2024-438004. OSV-2024-438005. GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p6. GCVE-2024-438007. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2024-43800

References

1. https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/security/advisories/GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p2. https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/commit/0c11fad159898cdc69fd9ab63269b72468ecaf6b3. https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/commit/ce730896fddce1588111d9ef6fdf20896de5c6fa

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