Active Exploitation of Vulnerability in Vite Development Servers
17 September 2026
Attackers are exploiting a high severity vulnerability in Vite development servers to retrieve restricted system and configuration files over HTTP. Patch immediately.
Background
F5 Labs recently reported on a mass scanning campaign exploiting a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-39364) that affects Vite development servers. This vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v3.1) score of 7.5 out of 10.
Known Exploitation
This vulnerability is reportedly being actively exploited.
Impact
Successful exploitation of the unauthenticated file-read and access-list bypass vulnerability could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass server.fs.deny configurations and retrieve restricted system and configuration files over HTTP.
Affected Products
The vulnerability affects the following products:
Vite versions 7.1.0 to 7.3.1
Vite versions 8.0.0 to 8.0.4
Vite-plus versions 0.1.15 and earlier
Recommendations
Users and administrators of affected products are advised to update to the latest versions immediately.
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