Path Traversal in resolve-path

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-3732 · GHSA-62g9-6hw5-rwfp · Published 07/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-3732 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting resolve-path (resolve-path project), resolve-path.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.4.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
resolve-path resolve-path_project	`< 1.4.0`	`1.4.0`
resolve-path npm	`< 1.4.0`	`1.4.0`

Description

Versions of resolve-path before 1.4.0 are vulnerable to path traversal. resolve-path relative path resolving suffers from a lack of file path sanitization for windows based paths.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.4.0 or later.

NVD description

resolve-path node module before 1.4.0 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to lack of validation of paths with certain special characters, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3732 · ADVISORY
pillarjs/resolve-path commit fe5b805 · WEB
hackerone.com/reports/315760 · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-62g9-6hw5-rwfp · ADVISORY
npmjs.com/advisories/573 · WEB

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