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SCA: security update for vite (GHSA-64vr-g452-qvp3)
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411188
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- Vite a frontend build tooling framework for javascript. Affected versions of vite were discovered to
contain a DOM Clobbering vulnerability when building scripts to `cjs`/`iife`/`umd` output format. 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. 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. We have identified a
DOM Clobbering vulnerability in Vite bundled scripts, particularly when the scripts dynamically import
other scripts from the assets folder and the developer sets the build output format to `cjs`, `iife`, or
`umd`. In such cases, Vite replaces relative paths starting with `__VITE_ASSET__` using the URL retrieved
from `document.currentScript`. 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 is used as
the URL for importing scripts, potentially leading to the dynamic loading of scripts from an attacker-
controlled server. This vulnerability can result in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on websites that
include Vite-bundled files (configured with an output format of `cjs`, `iife`, or `umd`) and allow users
to inject certain scriptless HTML tags without properly sanitizing the name or id attributes. This issue
has been patched in versions 5.4.6, 5.3.6, 5.2.14, 4.5.5, and 3.2.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There
are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-45812)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 411188
Version: Revision 1.6
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/23/2025
Updated: 6/1/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.9
Percentile: 52.46
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Medium
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 4.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45812
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.8
Threat Score: 1.1
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-45812
cwe: CWE-79