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High · 7.7 CVE-2026-23644 EUVD-2026-3402GHSA-2657-3c98-63jqGO-2026-4332

esm.sh has path traversal in `extractPackageTarball` that enables file writes from malicious packages

Published Jan 18, 2026 · Updated Jan 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

esm.sh is a no-build content delivery network (CDN) for web development. Prior to Go pseeudoversion 0.0.0-20260116051925-c62ab83c589e, the software has a path traversal vulnerability due to an incomplete fix. `path.Clean` normalizes a path but does not prevent absolute paths in a malicious tar file. Commit https://github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh/commit/9d77b88c320733ff6689d938d85d246a3af9af16, corresponding to pseudoversion 0.0.0-20260116051925-c62ab83c589e, fixes this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
esm-dev esm.sh < 0.0.0-20260116051925-c62ab83c589e —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260226T182644-150000.1.149.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0757-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh >= 0.0.1, <= 136 — GHSA-2657-3c98-63jq
Go github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh < 0.0.0-20260116051925-c62ab83c589e 0.0.0-20260116051925-c62ab83c589e GHSA-2657-3c98-63jq

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