Bug 1227688

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-38526: doxygen,doxygen-1_10: Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Gianluca Gabrielli <gianluca.gabrielli>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Petr Gajdos <pgajdos>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	meissner, security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/412153/
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1227687

Description Gianluca Gabrielli 2024-07-12 07:51:07 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1227687 +++

The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. Notable users are JSTOR, Intuit and World Economic Forum. However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io.

References:
https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38526

Comment 1 Gianluca Gabrielli 2024-07-12 08:11:35 UTC

The following packages contains code that load js from the polyfill.io domain, but it was made optional [0] by commenting it out [1]. Hence, no problem here.

- SUSE:SLE-15-SP6:Update/doxygen-1_10
- openSUSE:Factory/doxygen
- SUSE:ALP:Source:Standard:1.0/doxygen

The following two packages are not affected.

- SUSE:SLE-12:Update/doxygen
- SUSE:SLE-15:Update/doxygen

[0] https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/10354
[1] https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/commit/41e3eeed6d7c34d14f072cbfea5fe418fc65a760