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webpack-subresource-integrity
Webpack plugin for enabling Subresource Integrity.
Subresource Integrity (SRI) is a security feature that enables browsers to verify that files they fetch (for example, from a CDN) are delivered without unexpected manipulation.
Upgrading from version 1.x? Read the migration guide.
Features
- Optional integration with html-webpack-plugin.
- Automatic support for dynamic imports (also known as code splitting.)
- Compatible with Webpack 5 (for Webpack versions 1-4 see 1.x branch.)
Installation
yarn add --dev webpack-subresource-integrity
npm install webpack-subresource-integrity --save-dev
Recommended Webpack Configuration
import { SubresourceIntegrityPlugin } from "webpack-subresource-integrity";
// or: const { SubresourceIntegrityPlugin } = require('webpack-subresource-integrity');
const compiler = webpack({
output: {
// the following setting is required for SRI to work:
crossOriginLoading: "anonymous",
},
plugins: [new SubresourceIntegrityPlugin()],
});
Setting the integrity
attribute for top-level assets
For the plugin to take effect it is essential that you set the
integrity
attribute for top-level assets (i.e. assets loaded by your
HTML pages.)
With HtmlWebpackPlugin
When html-webpack-plugin is injecting assets into the template (the
default), the integrity
attribute will be set automatically. The
crossorigin
attribute will be set as well, to the value of
output.crossOriginLoading
webpack option. There is nothing else to
be done.
With HtmlWebpackPlugin({ inject: false })
When you use html-webpack-plugin with inject: false
, you are
required to set the integrity
and crossorigin
attributes in your
template as follows:
<% for (let index in htmlWebpackPlugin.files.js) { %>
<script
src="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.files.js[index] %>"
integrity="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.files.jsIntegrity[index] %>"
crossorigin="<%= webpackConfig.output.crossOriginLoading %>"
></script>
<% } %>
<% for (let index in htmlWebpackPlugin.files.css) { %>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.files.css[index] %>"
integrity="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.files.cssIntegrity[index] %>"
crossorigin="<%= webpackConfig.output.crossOriginLoading %>"
/>
<% } %>
Without HtmlWebpackPlugin
The correct value for the integrity
attribute can be retrieved from
the integrity
property of Webpack assets. For example:
compiler.plugin("done", (stats) => {
const integrityValues = stats
.toJson()
.assets.map((asset) => [asset.name, asset.integrity]);
});
Note that when you add the integrity
attribute on your link
and
script
tags, you're also required to set the crossorigin
attribute. It is recommended to set this attribute to the same value
as the webpack output.crossOriginLoading
configuration option.
Web Server Configuration
If your page can be loaded through plain HTTP (as opposed to HTTPS),
you must set the Cache-Control: no-transform
response header or your
page will break when assets are loaded through a transforming
proxy. See below for more information.
When using caching, stale assets will fail to load since they will not pass integrity checks. It is vital that you configure caching correctly in your web server. See below for more information.
Options
hashFuncNames
Default value: ["sha384"]
An array of strings, each specifying the name of a hash function to be used for calculating integrity hash values.
See SRI: Cryptographic hash functions
The default is chosen based on the current suggestion by the W3C which reads:
At the time of writing, SHA-384 is a good baseline.
See here for additional information on why SHA-384 was chosen by the W3C over their initial suggestion, SHA-256.
As one of the commenters in that discussion points out, "SRI hashes are likely
delivered over SSL" which today (2021) is often using SHA-256 so that there is
probably little harm in downgrading this to sha256
instead.
By using SHA-256 you will save 21 bytes per chunk and perhaps a few CPU cycles, although SHA-384 is actually faster to compute on some hardware. Not that it matters, as the difference is dwarfed by all the other work a browser has to do in order to download and parse a JS or CSS asset.
You probably want to use sha512
instead of the default only if you're
paranoid. It will cost you an additional 21 bytes per chunk; the CPU overhead is
virtually nil because SHA-512 is the same as SHA-384, just not truncated.
Although you can specify multiple hash functions here, doing so is pointless as long as all mainstream browsers only support the SHA-2 family, which is the case today. Worse, it's detrimental since it adds unnecessary overhead.
The reason is that as per the spec, only the strongest hash function is used and
so eg. ['sha256', 'sha512']
is equivalent to ['sha512']
unless SHA-512 was
one day deemed weaker than SHA-256 by user agents, which is an unlikely
scenario. As one of the authors of the W3C spec puts
it:
The support for multiple hashes is in the spec for backward-compatibility once we introduce new hash algorithms (e.g. SHA3).
enabled
Default value: "auto"
One of "auto"
, true
, or false
.
true
means to enable the plugin and false
means to disable it.
auto
is the default and means to enable the plugin when the Webpack
mode is production
or
none
and disable it when it is development
.
hashLoading
Default value: "eager"
One of "eager"
or "lazy"
"eager""
means that integrity hashes for all assets will be defined in the entry chunk.
"lazy"
means that integrity hashes for any given asset will be defined in its direct parents
in the chunk graph. This can lead to duplication of hashes across assets, but can significantly
reduce the size of your entry chunk(s) if you have a large number of async chunks.
Exporting integrity
values
You might want to export generated integrity hashes, perhaps for use
with SSR. We recommend
webpack-assets-manifest
for this purpose. When configured with option integrity: true
it
will include the hashes generated by this plugin in the manifest.
Example usage with webpack-assets-manifest.
Caveats
Caching
Using SRI presents a potential risk to the availability of your website when HTTP response caching is setup incorrectly. Stale asset versions are always problematic but SRI exacerbates the risk.
Without SRI, inconsequential changes (such as whitespace-only changes) don't matter, and your website might still look OK when a stale CSS asset is used. Even with a stale JS asset there's a chance your website will still be more or less working as expected.
With SRI, however, a stale asset will fail hard. This is because the browser won't tell the difference between a version of your asset that has been tampered with and one that is simply outdated: both will fail the integrity check and refuse to load.
It's therefore imperative that, if you do use caching, you use a robust setup: one where any change in content, no matter how miniscule or inconsequential, will cause the cache to be invalidated.
With Webpack and long-term caching this means using [contenthash]
(with
realContentHash
, which is enabled by default in production mode). Using
[contenthash]
with realContentHash
disabled, or using a different type of
hash placeholder (such as [chunkhash]
) provides weaker guarantees, which is
why this plugin will output a warning in these cases. See issue
#162
for more information.
Proxies
By its very nature, SRI can cause your page to break when assets are modified by a proxy. This is because SRI doesn't distinguish between malicious and benevolent modifications: any modification will prevent an asset from being loaded.
Notably, this issue can arise when your page is loaded through Chrome Data Saver.
This is only a problem when your page can be loaded with plain HTTP, since proxies are incapable of modifying encrypted HTTPS responses.
Presumably, you're looking to use SRI because you're concerned about
security and thus your page is only served through HTTPS anyway.
However, if you really need to use SRI and HTTP together, you should
set the Cache-Control: no-transform
response header. This will
instruct all well-behaved proxies (including Chrome Data Saver) to
refrain from modifying the assets.
Preloading
This plugin adds the integrity attribute to <link rel="preload">
tags, but preloading with SRI doesn't work as expected in current
Chrome versions. The resource will be loaded twice, defeating the
purpose of preloading. This problem doesn't appear to exist in
Firefox or Safari. See issue
#111
for more information.
Browser support
Browser support for SRI is widely implemented. Your page will still work on browsers without support for SRI, but subresources won't be protected from tampering.
See Can I use Subresource Integrity?
Hot Reloading
This plugin can interfere with hot reloading and therefore should be
disabled when using tools such as webpack-dev-server
. This shouldn't
be a problem because hot reloading is usually used only in development
mode where SRI is not normally needed.
For testing SRI without setting up a full-blown web server, consider
using a tool such as http-server
.
Safari and Assets that Require Cookies
As detailed in
Webpack Issue #6972,
the crossOrigin
attribute can break loading of assets in certain
edge cases due to a bug in Safari. Since SRI requires the
crossOrigin
attribute to be set, you may run into this case even
when source URL is same-origin with respect to the asset.
Further Reading
License
Copyright (c) 2015-present Waysact Pty Ltd
MIT (see LICENSE)