Description
This affects versions of package browserless-chrome before 1.40.2-chrome-stable. User input flowing from the workspace endpoint gets used to create a file path filePath and this is fetched and then sent back to a user. This can be escaped to fetch arbitrary files from a server.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:R |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Path Traversal
- CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs
Affected products
browserless-chrome
- affected before 1.40.2-chrome-stable
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmbrowserless-chromeGHSA-8p9r-f949-699g (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BROWSERLESSCHROME-1023657 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/browserless/chrome/blob/master/src/routes.ts%23L175 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/browserless/chrome/commit/848b87e5bea4f8473eea85261a5ff922d6ebd2b6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/browserless/chrome/releases/tag/1.40.2-chrome-stable (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8p9r-f949-699g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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