CVE-2022-39382
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 2.1%@keystone-6/core's NODE_ENV defaults to development with esbuild
Description
### Impact `@keystone-6/[email protected] || 3.0.1` users that use `NODE_ENV` in their own code (**not dependencies**) to trigger security-sensitive functionality in a production build are vulnerable to `NODE_ENV` being inlined to `"development"` for user code. If your dependencies use `NODE_ENV` to trigger particular behaviours (optimisations, security or otherwise), they should still respect your environment's configured `NODE_ENV` variable and thereby be unaffected. If you do not use `NODE_ENV` in your own code to trigger security-sensitive functionality, **you are not impacted** by this vulnerability. An example of code that would be affected, might be the following: ```typescript if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') { // this code would unintentionally run in your production builds } ``` ### Technical Description The problem comes from esbuild defaulting `NODE_ENV` to `"development"` when a platform configuration is undefined. You can read about why [`esbuild` has that behaviour in their documentation](https://esbuild.github.io/api/#platform), but the result for Keystone users is that user Typescript was compiled, and had inlined `NODE_ENV` to the constant `"development"`. Your application's dependencies, as found in `node_modules` (including `@keystone-6/core`), are typically not compiled as part of this process, and thus should be unaffected. Therefore any libraries that used `NODE_ENV` to trigger particular behaviours (optimisations, security or otherwise) should still respect your environment's `NODE_ENV`. We have tested this assumption by verifying that `NODE_ENV=production yarn keystone start` still uses secure cookies when using `statelessSessions`. Thereby, the severity of this vulnerability is dependent on what functionality users conditionally triggered, in their own code, depending on the expectation that `NODE_ENV` would be correctly configured in their application. In accordance with Common Vulnerability Scoring System `2.3.3. Assume Vulnerable Configurations`, this security advisory assumes vulnerable configurations and is thus marked as *critical*, but you should evaluate the true security impact for your application to determine a relevant score. ### Patches This vulnerability has been fixed in `@keystone-6/[email protected]`, thanks to @mmachatschek in https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8031/. We have added regression tests for this vulnerability in https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8063. ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade your `@keystone-6/core` version for any reason, your best alternative is to remove any code that uses `NODE_ENV` in a way that may reasonably impact your application security. ### References - https://esbuild.github.io/api/#platform - https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8031 - https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8063 ### For more information Thanks to [Austin Burdine](https://github.com/acburdine) for reporting this problem as a potential security vulnerability. If you have any questions around this security advisory, please don't hesitate to contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), or [open an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/issues/new/choose). If you have a security flaw to report for any software in this repository, please see our [SECURITY policy](https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/blob/main/SECURITY.md).
Affected packages (1)
- npm/@keystone-6/core>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |