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Description

webpack-dev-server versions up to and including 5.2.3 are vulnerable to cross-origin source code exposure when serving over a non-potentially trustworthy origin such as plain HTTP. The previous fix relied on the Sec-Fetch-Mode and Sec-Fetch-Site request headers, which browsers omit for non-trustworthy origins, allowing a malicious site to load the bundled source as a script and read it across origins. Impact: an attacker controlling a website visited by a developer running webpack-dev-server can recover the application source code when the dev server runs over HTTP at a guessable host and port. Chromium based browsers from Chrome 142 onward are not affected due to local network access restrictions. Upgrade to webpack-dev-server 5.2.4 or later, which sets Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin on responses.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
webpack-dev-server webpack-dev-server < 5.2.4 5.2.4

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed agama-web-ui 21+360.16caae772-44.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10979-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling katib-earlystopping +8 0.19.0-r31 —
Wolfi rolling katib-suggestion-goptuna-compat 0.19.0-r40 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm webpack-dev-server < 5.2.4 5.2.4 GHSA-79cf-xcqc-c78w

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