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CVE-2023-45311: Code injection in fsevents

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

fsevents before 1.2.11 depends on the https://fsevents-binaries.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com URL, which might allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code if any JavaScript project (that depends on fsevents) distributes code that was obtained from that URL at a time when it was controlled by an adversary. NOTE: some sources feel that this means that no version is affected any longer, because the URL is not controlled by an adversary.

Affected products

• Fsevents Project Fsevents: before 1.2.11 — fixed in 1.2.11
• Npm Fsevents: before 1.2.11 — fixed in 1.2.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Fsevents Project Fsevents 1.2.11; Npm Fsevents 1.2.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/atlassian/moo/blob/56ccbdd41b493332bc2cd7a4097a5802594cdb9c/package-lock.json#L1901-L1902
• https://github.com/atlassian/react-immutable-proptypes/blob/ddb9fa5194b931bf7528eb4f2c0a8c3434f70edd/package-lock.json#L153
• https://github.com/cloudflare/authr/blob/3f6129d97d06e61033a7f237d84e35e678db490f/ts/package-lock.json#L1512
• https://github.com/cloudflare/hugo-cloudflare-docs/blob/e0f7cfa195af8ef1bfa51a487be7d34ba298ed06/package-lock.json#L494
• https://github.com/cloudflare/redux-grim/blob/b652f99f95fb16812336073951adc5c5a93e2c23/package-lock.json#L266-L267
• https://github.com/cloudflare/serverless-cloudflare-workers/blob/e95e1e9c9770ed9a3d9480c1fa73e64391268354/package-lock.json#L737
• https://github.com/fsevents/fsevents/compare/v1.2.10...v1.2.11
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-FSEVENTS-5487987
• https://github.com/atlassian/moo/blob/56ccbdd41b493332bc2cd7a4097a5802594cdb9c/package-lock.json#L1901-L1902
• https://github.com/atlassian/react-immutable-proptypes/blob/ddb9fa5194b931bf7528eb4f2c0a8c3434f70edd/package-lock.json#L153
• https://github.com/cloudflare/authr/blob/3f6129d97d06e61033a7f237d84e35e678db490f/ts/package-lock.json#L1512
• https://github.com/cloudflare/hugo-cloudflare-docs/blob/e0f7cfa195af8ef1bfa51a487be7d34ba298ed06/package-lock.json#L494

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