vitejs vite up to 7.1.10 path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in vitejs vite up to 7.1.10. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-62522. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in vitejs vite up to 7.1.10. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Vite is a frontend tooling framework for JavaScript. In versions from 2.9.18 to before 3.0.0, 3.2.9 to before 4.0.0, 4.5.3 to before 5.0.0, 5.2.6 to before 5.4.21, 6.0.0 to before 6.4.1, 7.0.0 to before 7.0.8, and 7.1.0 to before 7.1.11, files denied by server.fs.deny were sent if the URL ended with \ when the dev server is running on Windows. Only apps explicitly exposing the Vite dev server to the network and running the dev server on Windows were affected. This issue has been patched in versions 5.4.21, 6.4.1, 7.0.8, and 7.1.11.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-62522 since 10/15/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.4.21, 6.4.1, 7.0.8 or 7.1.11 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f479cc57c425ed41ceb434fecebd63931b1ed4ed is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• vitejs

Name

• vite

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 5.4.0
• 5.4.1
• 5.4.2
• 5.4.3
• 5.4.4
• 5.4.5
• 5.4.6
• 5.4.7
• 5.4.8
• 5.4.9
• 5.4.10
• 5.4.11
• 5.4.12
• 5.4.13
• 5.4.14
• 5.4.15
• 5.4.16
• 5.4.17
• 5.4.18
• 5.4.19
• 5.4.20
• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4.0
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 7.1.3
• 7.1.4
• 7.1.5
• 7.1.6
• 7.1.7
• 7.1.8
• 7.1.9
• 7.1.10

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/

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