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CVE-2024-52011

HIGH CVSS: 8.3 Published: 2026-06-01 Modified: 2026-07-21

Description

launch-editor allows users to open files with line numbers in editor from Node.js. Prior to version 2.9.0, due to the insufficient sanitization of the `file` argument in the `launchEditor`, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on Windows by supplying a filename that contains special characters. This issue has been fixed in the `launch-editor` version 2.9.0, corresponding to vite version 5.4.9.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-77, CWE-88

References