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Vitest browser mode serves arbitrary files

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 4, 2025 in vitest-dev/vitest • Updated Feb 4, 2025

Package

npm @vitest/browser (npm)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.4, < 2.1.9
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.4

Patched versions

2.1.9
3.0.4

Description

Summary

__screenshot-error handler on the browser mode HTTP server that responds any file on the file system. Especially if the server is exposed on the network by browser.api.host: true, an attacker can send a request to that handler from remote to get the content of arbitrary files.

Details

This __screenshot-error handler on the browser mode HTTP server responds any file on the file system.
https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/blob/f17918a79969d27a415f70431e08a9445b051e45/packages/browser/src/node/plugin.ts#L88-L130

This code was added by vitest-dev/vitest@2d62051.

PoC

  1. Create a directory and change the current directory to that directory
  2. Run npx vitest init browser
  3. Run npm run test:browser
  4. Run curl http://localhost:63315/__screenshot-error?file=/path/to/any/file

Impact

Users explicitly exposing the browser mode server to the network by browser.api.host: true may get any files exposed.

References

@sheremet-va sheremet-va published to vitest-dev/vitest Feb 4, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 4, 2025
Reviewed Feb 4, 2025
Last updated Feb 4, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-24963

GHSA ID

GHSA-8gvc-j273-4wm5

Source code

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