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CVE-2026-84373: Vitest: Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Read via @vitest/mocker Redirect Mock
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-01 · updated 2026-09-09
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
Vitest is a testing framework powered by Vite. From 2.1.0 until 4.1.11 and 5.0.0-rc.2, the public mockerPlugin and standalone interceptorPlugin exports in packages/mocker/src/node/interceptorPlugin.ts register the vitest:interceptor:register handler on Vite's unauthenticated HMR WebSocket without validating redirect targets against the file-serving allowlist. The implementation processes event.redirect without enforcing server.fs.allow and server.fs.deny through isFileLoadingAllowed. A remote client that can reach an exposed development server can submit an opaque URL scheme preserving .. segments, causing join(server.config.root, redirectUrl.pathname) to resolve outside the project root. The plugin's load hook then returns readFile(mock.redirect, 'utf-8') as module source, disclosing local files readable by the dev-server process. Vitest browser mode uses a token-authenticated RPC and is not remotely unauthenticated by default, although the same boundary check was missing on that path. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.11 and 5.0.0-rc.2.
Affected products
- @vitest mocker: from 2.1.0, < 4.1.11; from 5.0.0-beta.1, < 5.0.0-rc.2
- vitest-dev vitest: from 2.1.0, < 4.1.11; from 5.0.0-beta.1, < 5.0.0-rc.2
References
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/commit/51edf2b072902aec6d30c90ebaafd8f121c6f9d8
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/commit/8ff9b9a9efca7c6cfd5243569440de8d7a33aec4
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/commit/fe5a11d3ceac5ec10d6d7d21a46d4caca132c48f
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/pull/10972
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/pull/10974
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/releases/tag/v4.1.11
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/releases/tag/v5.0.0-rc.2
- https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/security/advisories/GHSA-82fw-gwwq-j7x9
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