GHSA-4r4m-qw57-chr8MediumCVSS 5.3

Vite has a `server.fs.deny` bypassed for `inline` and `raw` with `?import` query

Published
March 31, 2025
Last Modified
January 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary

The contents of arbitrary files can be returned to the browser.

Impact

Only apps explicitly exposing the Vite dev server to the network (using --host or server.host config option) are affected.

Details

  • base64 encoded content of non-allowed files is exposed using ?inline&import (originally reported as ?import&?inline=1.wasm?init)
  • content of non-allowed files is exposed using ?raw?import

/@fs/ isn't needed to reproduce the issue for files inside the project root.

PoC

Original report (check details above for simplified cases):

The ?import&?inline=1.wasm?init ending allows attackers to read arbitrary files and returns the file content if it exists. Base64 decoding needs to be performed twice

$ npm create vite@latest
$ cd vite-project/
$ npm install
$ npm run dev

Example full URL http://localhost:5173/@fs/C:/windows/win.ini?import&?inline=1.wasm?init

🎯 Affected products5

  • npm/vite:>= 6.2.0, < 6.2.4
  • npm/vite:>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.3
  • npm/vite:>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.13
  • npm/vite:>= 5.0.0, < 5.4.16
  • npm/vite:< 4.5.11

🔗 References (5)