Vite Affected by Arbitrary File Read via Vite Dev Server WebSocket
36Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.2epss 3.3%
exploitation probability
3.3%top 13% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Vite is a frontend tooling framework for JavaScript. From 6.0.0 to before 6.4.2, 7.3.2, and 8.0.5, if it is possible to connect to the Vite dev server’s WebSocket without an Origin header, an attacker can invoke fetchModule via the custom WebSocket event vite:invoke and combine file://... with ?raw (or ?inline) to retrieve the contents of arbitrary files on the server as a JavaScript string (e.g., export default "..."). The access control enforced in the HTTP request path (such as server.fs.allow) is not applied to this WebSocket-based execution path. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.4.2, 7.3.2, and 8.0.5.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24761https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24762https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24866https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39363https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456179https://github.com/vitejs/vite/security/advisories/GHSA-p9ff-h696-f583https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-39363.json