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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-53632 json

NTLMv2 hash disclosure via UNC path handling on Windows

published 5mo ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2026-38299 , GHSA-v6wh-96g9-6wx3

cvss
5.5
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

launch-editor allows users to open files with line numbers in editor from Node.js. Prior to 2.14.1, the launch-editor NPM package accesses arbitrary paths including Windows UNC paths. When a UNC path is opened, Windows automatically attempts NTLM authentication to the remote host, causing the user’s NTLMv2 password hash to be leaked to an attacker-controlled SMB server. This can result in credential compromise through offline hash cracking. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.14.1.

Patch / fix

  • npm launch-editor 2.14.1
  • npm vite 6.4.3, 7.3.5, 8.0.16
  • npm vite-plus 0.1.24
  • vitejs vite 0.1.24, 2.14.1, 6.4.3, 7.3.5, 8.0.16
  • agama-web-ui openSUSE Tumbleweed 24+0.a836cced5-52.1
  • agama-web-ui openSUSE Leap 16.0 17+673.b97ba64d6-160000.12.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11680-1openSUSE-SU-2026:21448-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-53632 updated cvss 5.3

launch-editor: launch-editor: Credential compromise via NTLMv2 password hash leak through UNC path access

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Avoid using launch-editor on Windows clients against untrusted URLs. Upgrade when updated packages are available.”
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 launch-editor, cryostat-openshift-console-plugin-npm Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-healthcheck-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-operator-bundle, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-console-plugin-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-console-plugin-419-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-console-plugin-pf5-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-pf5-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8
    +14 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-operator-bundle Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 launch-editor Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-eda-controller, ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/gateway-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9, +1 more Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 launch-editor Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop.git Red Hat Data Grid 8 launch-editor Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift5/ose-console-rhel9, openshift5/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8 Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/vitejs/launch-editor/security/advisories/GHSA-v6wh-96g9-6wx3 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CNA 4.0 5.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm launch-editor
<2.14.1
2.14.1
npm vite
>=8.0.0, <8.0.16
>=7.0.0, <7.3.5
<6.4.3
8.0.16
7.3.5
6.4.3
npm vite-plus
<0.1.24
0.1.24

Affected products

  • vitejs launch-editor
  • vitejs vite
  • vitejs vite-plus

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of vitejs/launch-editor published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.