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webpack 5.98.0 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them
webpack 5.98.0 has 2 known vulnerabilities; 5.104.1 fixes all of them.
npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Packs ECMAScript/CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows you to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Supports loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es…”
- Known vulnerabilities
- 2
- None rated high or critical
- Released
- Feb 13, 2025
- Latest is 5.112.0
- Downloads last week
- 892.4K
- 2% of webpack downloads
- Licence
- MIT
- Pulls in
- 73 packages
- Resolved by deps.dev
What to upgrade to
5.104.1 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.
5.104.1Upgrade to this
Fixes all 2 known vulnerabilities. Released Dec 18, 2025.
No known vulnerabilitiesNewest 5.x release and the latest release. Released Oct 15, 2026.
No known vulnerabilities
5.104.1 came out on Dec 18, 2025. A coding agent trained before then doesn’t know it exists, so it may suggest an older release. AI knowledge cutoff dates
Findings
- LowVulnerability
2 known vulnerabilities in webpack 5.98.0
EPSS: top 87%Most serious: CVE-2025-68157, webpack buildHttp HttpUriPlugin allowedUris bypass via HTTP redirects → SSRF + cache persistence. Upgrading to 5.104.1 fixes all of them.
- LowOutdated
webpack 5.98.0 is a minor version behind
Latest release is 5.112.0.
Every advisory for webpack 5.98.0
Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.
LowCVE-2025-68458 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-8fgc-7cc6-rx7xEPSS: top 87%
webpack buildHttp: allowedUris allow-list bypass via URL userinfo (@) leading to build-time SSRF behavior
Fixed in 5.104.1. Published Feb 5, 2026.
LowCVE-2025-68157 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-38r7-794h-5758EPSS: top 87%
webpack buildHttp HttpUriPlugin allowedUris bypass via HTTP redirects → SSRF + cache persistence
Fixed in 5.104.0. Published Feb 5, 2026.
Who is still on a vulnerable webpack
25% of last week’s 56.2M webpack downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.
From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.
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How this page is checked
StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly webpack 5.98.0, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.
Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.