google/zx · Security
zx Uses Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-w87r-vg9q-crqm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-13437
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 5.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:U
Description
When zx is invoked with --prefer-local=, the CLI creates a symlink named ./node_modules pointing to /node_modules. Due to a logic error in src/cli.ts (linkNodeModules / cleanup), the function returns the target path instead of the alias (symlink path). The later cleanup routine removes what it received, which deletes the target directory itself. Result: zx can delete an external /node_modules outside the current working directory.
CWEs
- CWE-706 · Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13437 ↗
- https://github.com/google/zx/issues/1348 ↗
- https://github.com/google/zx/pull/1349 ↗
- https://github.com/google/zx/pull/1355 ↗
- https://github.com/google/zx/commit/9ef6d3c9962c4ba01e3fb8075855570c192b4681 ↗
- https://github.com/google/zx/commit/a4d1bc2467f305f1c91d62506e215f307dc1fbeb ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w87r-vg9q-crqm ↗