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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-112944 EUVD-2026-105045GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw

launch-editor: Editor CLI flag misinterpretation causing arbitrary command execution for some editors

Published Oct 20, 2026 · Updated Oct 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

launch-editor allows users to open files with line numbers in editor from Node.js. Prior to 2.14.2, when an attacker can create a filesystem entry beginning with plus or minus in the working directory, an affected editor is selected, and the path can remain relative or is converted to a relative WSL path, launchEditor forwards the path without forcing it to be interpreted as a positional filename. Editor option parsing then treats the attacker-controlled filename as a command-line flag, which can cause unintended file overwrite or arbitrary command execution by the selected editor. The affected editors are Vim and gVim, MacVim, Emacs and Emacsclient, and Notepad++ when a plugin exposes dangerous operations; WSL path conversion keeps Vite and newer middleware callers exposed. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vitejs launch-editor < 2.14.2 —
vitejs vite >= 8.3.0, < 8.3.3, >= 8.2.0, < 8.2.4, >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.6, >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.7, < 6.4.4 —
vitejs vite-plus < 1.1.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-pipelines-frontend 2.17.2-r16 —
Wolfi rolling langfuse-3-worker 3.225.12-r3 —
Wolfi rolling nextcloud-server-33 33.0.10-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm launch-editor < 2.14.2 2.14.2 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite >= 8.3.0, < 8.3.3 8.3.3 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite >= 8.2.0, < 8.2.4 8.2.4 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite >= 8.0.0, < 8.1.6 8.1.6 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.7 7.3.7 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite < 6.4.4 6.4.4 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw
npm vite-plus < 1.1.0 1.1.0 GHSA-r825-w8mm-5pxw

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