GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-9583-h5hc-x8cw React Router has Path Traversal in File Session Storage
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-61686
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- @react-router/node, @remix-run/node, @remix-run/deno
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2026-01-08
Affected packages
• npm @react-router/node: >= 7.0.0, < 7.9.4 → fixed in 7.9.4
• npm @remix-run/node: < 2.17.2 → fixed in 2.17.2
• npm @remix-run/deno: < 2.17.2 → fixed in 2.17.2
Description
If applications use `createFileSessionStorage()` from `@react-router/node` (or `@remix-run/node`/`@remix-run/deno` in Remix v2) with an unsigned cookie, it is possible for an attacker to cause the session to try to read/write from a location outside the specified session file directory. The success of the attack would depend on the permissions of the web server process to access those files.
Read files cannot be returned directly to the attacker. Session file reads would only succeed if the file matched the expected session file format. If the file matched the session file format, the data would be populated into the server side session but not directly returned to the attacker unless the application logic returned specific session information.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-61686 React Router is a router for React. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-9583-h5hc-x8cw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61686 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-61686 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2428423 web
- https://github.com/remix-run/react-router package
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-61686.json web