# CVE-2025-65025: esm.sh CDN service has arbitrary file write via tarslip

- Also known as: GO-2025-4138, GHSA-H3MW-4F23-GWPW
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 136, 0.0.0-20251117232647-9d77b88c3207
- Published: 2025-11-19 · Updated: 2025-11-20

## Affected

- esm-dev esm.sh: fixed in 136
- github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20251117232647-9d77b88c3207

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on esm-dev esm.sh, github.com/esm-dev/esm.sh, upgrade to a fixed version (136, 0.0.0-20251117232647-9d77b88c3207) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

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

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