Summary
Nuxt allows any websites to send any requests to the development server and read the response due to default CORS settings.
Details
While Vite patched the default CORS settings to fix https://github.com/vitejs/vite/security/advisories/GHSA-vg6x-rcgg-rjx6, nuxt uses its own CORS handler by default (https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/pull/23995).
https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/7d345c71462d90187fd09c96c7692f306c90def5/packages/vite/src/client.ts#L257-L263
That CORS handler sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *.
[!IMPORTANT]
If on an affected version, it may be possible to opt-out of the default Nuxt CORS handler by configuring vite.server.cors.
PoC
- Start a dev server in any nuxt project using Vite by
nuxt dev.
- Send a fetch request to
http://localhost:3000/_nuxt/app.vue (fetch('http://localhost:3000/_nuxt/app.vue')) from a different origin page.
Impact
Users with the default server.cors option using Vite builder may get the source code stolen by malicious websites
Additional Information
/__nuxt_vite_node__/manifest / /__nuxt_vite_node__/module also seems to have Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so it maybe also possible to exploit that handler.
https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/7d345c71462d90187fd09c96c7692f306c90def5/packages/vite/src/vite-node.ts#L39
Although I didn't find a valid module id.
Note that this handler is probably also vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks as I didn't find any host header checks.