External Control of File Name or Path Affecting i18next-fs-backend package, versions <2.6.4
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- published4 May 2026
- disclosed22 Apr 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Apr 2026
NewCVE-2026-41693 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade i18next-fs-backend to version 2.6.4 or higher.
Overview
i18next-fs-backend is an i18next-fs-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js and for Deno to load translations from the filesystem.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of File Name or Path that leads to raw interpolation of lng and ns values in the loadPath and addPath templates. An attacker can read arbitrary files by passing in traversal sequences such as ?lng=../../../../etc/passwd or overwrite files with the create path if saveMissing is enabled,