🛡️ CVE-2024-25466 — document-picker

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-25466 is classified as CWE-26: Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename'. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "/dir/../filename" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected software

CVE-2024-25466 is recorded against 2 packages.

• document-picker (fixed in 9.1.1)
• react-native-document-picker

Timeline and source

Published on 16 February 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-26: Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename') in other software:

• CVE-2026-46747 (4.3 Medium, published 9 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-45133 (6.5 Medium, published 22 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-53908 (published 16 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2024-5866 (5.0 Medium, published 2 Jul 2024)
• CVE-2024-5865 (7.7 High, published 2 Jul 2024)
• CVE-2024-28064 (9.8 Critical, published 18 May 2024)
• CVE-2024-29466 (8.8 High, published 30 Apr 2024)
• CVE-2024-31551 (7.5 High, published 26 Apr 2024)

Details

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