CVE-2025-61686: React Router has Path Traversal in File Session Storage
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.
Published Jan 8, 2026 · Updated Sep 18, 2026
Affected packages
@react-router/node
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Affected
- >= 7.0.0, <= 7.9.3
- Fixed in
- 7.9.4
- Check
npm ls @react-router/node
@remix-run/node
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Affected
- <= 2.17.1
- Fixed in
- 2.17.2
- Check
npm ls @remix-run/node
@remix-run/deno
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Affected
- <= 2.17.1
- Fixed in
- 2.17.2
- Check
npm ls @remix-run/deno
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
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.
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References
- https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-9583-h5hc-x8cw
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61686
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-61686
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2428423
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-61686.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9583-h5hc-x8cw
How this page is made: the data panel comes from the GitHub Advisory Database, CISA’s KEV catalog, the NVD and FIRST EPSS, and updates twice a day. No analysis has been written for this entry yet. Methodology
