CVE-2023-39584 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal vulnerability in hexo. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 34.5% (98th percentile). A fix is available for hexo — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Hexo `include_code` has a path traversal
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2023-39584.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
hexonpmDescription
Hexo up to v7.0.0 (RC2) was discovered to contain an arbitrary file read vulnerability.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | hexo | all versions | 7.2.0npm install hexo@7.2.0 |
Affected Products
hexohexoDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for hexo, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update hexo to 7.2.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2023-39584 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-39584 in your dependencies?
Find it across npm, including transitive dependencies.