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Medium · 5.1 CVE-2026-35613 EUVD-2026-19790GHSA-9h9m-rr67-9jpg

Path traversal in coursevault-preview due to improper base-directory boundary validation

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

coursevault-preview is a utility for previewing course material files from a configured directory. coursevault-preview versions prior to 0.1.1 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the resolveSafe utility. The boundary check used String.prototype.startsWith(baseDir) on a normalized path, which does not enforce a directory boundary. An attacker who controls the relativePath argument to affected CoursevaultPreview methods may be able to read files outside the configured baseDir when a sibling directory exists whose name shares the same string prefix. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
moritzmyrz coursevault-preview < 0.1.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm coursevault-preview < 0.1.1 0.1.1 GHSA-9h9m-rr67-9jpg

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