# launch-editor (npm) vulnerabilities

5 known vulnerabilities (2 high, 3 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 2.14.2 (Oct 6, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 2.14.2 (Oct 6, 2026), the latest release
- Weekly downloads: 30.5M
- Dependents: 47K
- Releases: 24 since 1.0.0 (Jan 6, 2018)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/launch-editor
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-112944: 1.0.0 to 2.14.1 (2.14.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-112943: 1.0.0 to 2.14.1 (2.14.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-112942: 1.0.0 to 2.14.1 (2.14.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-53632: 1.0.0 to 2.14.0 (2.14.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2024-52011: 1.0.0 to 2.8.2 (2.9.0 is outside it)

## Advisories (5)

### [CVE-2026-112944](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-112944): launch-editor: Editor CLI flag misinterpretation causing arbitrary command execution for some editors

- Severity: Medium 6.3
- Published: Oct 20, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 2.14.2.
- Fixed in 2.14.2 (released Oct 6, 2026, 14 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 2.14.2, is not affected.
- 67% of launch-editor downloads last week were affected versions (22.9M).

### [CVE-2026-112943](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-112943): launch-editor: escapeCmdArgs() omits % escaping on Windows

- Severity: Medium 6.3
- Published: Oct 20, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 2.14.2.
- Fixed in 2.14.2 (released Oct 6, 2026, 14 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 2.14.2, is not affected.
- 67% of launch-editor downloads last week were affected versions (22.9M).

### [CVE-2026-112942](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-112942): launch-editor: \`fs.existsSync()\` existence check can be bypassed on Windows

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Oct 20, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 2.14.2.
- Fixed in 2.14.2 (released Oct 6, 2026, 14 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 2.14.2, is not affected.
- 67% of launch-editor downloads last week were affected versions (22.9M).

### [CVE-2026-53632](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-53632): NTLMv2 hash disclosure via UNC path handling on Windows

- Severity: Medium 5.5
- Published: Jun 22, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 2.14.1.
- Fixed in 2.14.1 (released Jun 1, 2026, 21 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 2.14.2, is not affected.
- 40% of launch-editor downloads last week were affected versions (13.5M).

### [CVE-2024-52011](https://cve.now/CVE-2024-52011): launch-editor vulnerable to command injection via the crafted request on Windows

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jun 1, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 2.9.0.
- Fixed in 2.9.0 (released Sep 5, 2024, 634 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 2.14.2, is not affected.
- 8.6% of launch-editor downloads last week were affected versions (2.9M).

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