Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting vite package, versions <6.4.4>=7.0.0 <7.3.7>=8.0.0 <8.1.6>=8.2.0 <8.2.4>=8.3.0 <8.3.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-VITE-21282012
  • published21 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 Oct 2026
  • credit0xazanul

Introduced: 20 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-112944  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vite to version 6.4.4, 7.3.7, 8.1.6, 8.2.4, 8.3.3 or higher.

Overview

vite is a Native-ESM powered web dev build tool

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Argument Injection via the getArgumentsForFile function in packages/launch-editor/get-args.js, where a filename is passed directly to an editor process without being resolved to an absolute path first. An attacker who can control the filename argument can supply a value beginning with a hyphen or flag-like prefix, causing it to be interpreted as a command-line flag by the spawned editor process rather than as a file path.

Note: This is only exploitable on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environments where Vite 2.0.0+ is used with launch-editor-middleware v2.2.0+, and the impact on Notepad++ is limited to configurations using a plugin that exposes dangerous operations via plugin messages.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1