CVE-2025-65025

esm.sh is a nobuild content delivery network(CDN) for modern web development. Prior to version 136, the esm.sh CDN service is vulnerable to path traversal during NPM package tarball extraction. An attacker can craft a malicious NPM package containing specially crafted file paths (e.g., package/../../tmp/evil.js). When esm.sh downloads and extracts this package, files may be written to arbitrary locations on the server, escaping the intended extraction directory. This issue has been patched in version 136.

CVSS 3.1

9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 46% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-22

Published

2025-11-19

Modified

2026-10-18

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• esm:esm.sh

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh/commit/9d77b88c320733ff6689d938d85d246a3af9af16
• https://github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh/security/advisories/GHSA-h3mw-4f23-gwpw
• https://github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh/security/advisories/GHSA-h3mw-4f23-gwpw

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