plugin crashed - error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported

[smokku]

Current behavior

Running tests fails.

**Title:** Error running plugin

**Message:** We stopped running your tests because a plugin crashed.

Your `pluginsFile` threw an error from: `/home/smoku/frontend/app/cypress/plugins/index.js`

**Details:** Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:67:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:130:10)
    at module.exports (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at handleParseError (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:471:10)
    at /home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:503:5
    at /home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:358:12
    at /home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:373:3
    at iterateNormalLoaders (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:214:10)
    at iterateNormalLoaders (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:221:10)
    at /home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:236:3
    at context.callback (/home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:111:13)
    at /home/smoku/.cache/Cypress/9.6.1/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js:59:71
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

Desired behavior

No response

Test code to reproduce

Any test project will do. The thing is to run on node.js v16 with OpenSSL 3.

Cypress Version

9.6.1

Other

The change merged in #19977 is not a solution for a root cause, but a workaround. Relying on the vulnerable OpenSSL algorithm is not a future-proof solution.

Now that OpenSSL 3 is becoming standard, it is not viable anymore.

$ ldd /usr/bin/node | grep ssl
        libssl.so.3 => /lib64/libssl.so.3 (0x00007f588d549000)
$ node --version
v16.14.0
$ env NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider cypress open
node: --openssl-legacy-provider is not allowed in NODE_OPTIONS

The real solution is to update to Webpack 6 or use output.hashFunction: "xxhash64" option as described in webpack/webpack#14532 (comment)

[BlueWinds]

We have an ongoing investigation into upgrading our webpack version - #19555 is the most recent place we're tracking the work. Going to close this as duplicate.

You're absolutely right that updating gets more critical week by week. Major version updates of central dependencies are never as easy as we'd like them to be, unfortunately. >.>