Fallow: Jest and Vitest `projects` entries let an analyzed repository make Fallow read files outside the project root
CVE-2026-115569
Impact Fallow reads the Jest and Vitest configs of the repository that it analyzes. A Jest projects entry or a Vitest test.projects entry can name a path. Fallow followed such an entry to a config file and read that file, also when the file was outside the project root. These forms reached outside the root: an absolute path or glob, for example /etc/; a path with .. segments, for example ../; a glob with a . segment, because the glob crate also tests .. against a segment that starts with a literal .; a symlink in the project root to a directory above it; the extends path of a Vitest inline project; a script --config path that is a symlink to a file outside the project root. Fallow parsed each of these files as a test runner config. Fallow used the content only to credit dependencies, setup files and JSX import sources. Thus unused dependency and unused file findings could change. Fallow did not print the content or send it over the network. The Fallow threat model states that analysis reads only inside the project root. A crafted repository could make Fallow read files that the user did not expect. Such a read can happen in CI, or when an agent runs Fallow on a cloned repository.…
Assessment
- CVSS
- 3.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Low
- EPSS
- 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 23 October 2026
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
- Affected
- npm, rust · fallow, @fallow-cli/fallow-node, fallow-cli, fallow-core
- Weakness
- CWE-22, CWE-59
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow/security/advisories/GHSA-jfwm-3p3c-6hx5
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115569
- https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow/pull/3556
- https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow/commit/75c0c60948a53ddfe042e65b446343989f4c5649
- https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow/releases/tag/v3.34.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfwm-3p3c-6hx5
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