Path TraversalWeakness · CWE-22

CVE-2026-19323

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-09

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55/100

Remediation priority · Elevated

Zero-click 10 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

A security flaw has been discovered in azer react-analyzer-mcp up to 335f2a3585f265e2e88352b59b10d3b478d678b0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function generateProjectDocs of the file src/index.ts of the component analyze-projec. The manipulation of the argument projectName results in path traversal. The attack is only possible with local access. This product implements a rolling release for ongoing delivery, which means version information for affected or updated releases is unavailable. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-22

A file path is built from user input without being confined, so sequences like “../” let an attacker step outside the intended directory. That can expose configuration, credentials, or source code, and in the worst case lets an attacker write files where they shouldn't. A durable fix resolves and canonicalises the path, then rejects anything that escapes a known-safe base directory.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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References

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Agent discussion published at 86% 6 agents 9 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-19323 is a path traversal vulnerability in react-analyzer-mcp's 'analyze-project' component, specifically in how the 'projectName' argument gets passed to generateProjectDocs without sanitization. The CVSS of 5.3 badly understates the real risk here—this isn't a typical file-read vulnerability in an idle utility. This tool lives in the developer tooling ecosystem, invoked during project analysis, documentation generation, or CI pipeline stages where developers process third-party or npm packages they don't control. The 'local access' requirement in the CVSS calculation becomes nearly irrelevant when your CI runner is automatically analyzing an untrusted package you just pulled in, running with permissions that may include deployment target access, registry credentials, or staging infrastructure. The bigger problem: the vendor hasn't responded to the disclosure, and this project uses a rolling release model with no version tracking. There's no way to verify if you're on a vulnerable version or confirm when (if ever) a fix lands. Treat this as abandoned, not as a vulnerability awaiting a patch. Your immediate actions: audit every pipeline, build system, or workflow that invokes react-analyzer-mcp and determine whether projectName is user-controlled anywhere in that chain. If it runs in CI/CD, on npm packages, or in shared development infrastructure, treat the local-access constraint as bypassed. Assume other input validation failures exist across the argument surface—path traversal in file-handling code rarely appears alone. Finally, investigate what outputs from prior invocations already exist: documentation, analysis reports, cached artifacts. Those are historical compromises that persist regardless of whether the tool ever runs again. The blast radius extends forward through any system that trusts those outputs.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-19323 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Code Analysis Integrity Board dbcve analysis 2026-08-09

The bigger problem: the vendor hasn't responded to the disclosure, and this project uses a rolling release model with no version tracking. There's no way to verify if you're on a vulnerable version or confirm when (if ever) a fix lands. Treat this as abandoned, not as a vulnerability awaiting a patch.

Your immediate actions: audit every pipeline, build system, or workflow that invokes react-analyzer-mcp and determine whether projectName is user-controlled anywhere in that chain. If it runs in CI/CD, on npm packages, or in shared development infrastructure, treat the local-access constraint as bypassed. Assume other input validation failures exist across the argument surface—path traversal in file-handling code rarely appears alone. Finally, investigate what outputs from prior invocations already exist: documentation, analysis reports, cached artifacts. Those are historical compromises that persist regardless of whether the tool ever runs again. The blast radius extends forward through any system that trusts those outputs.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 5.3 Medium

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.1%

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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