CVE-2026-35454 — code-marketplace
Fix: coder/code-marketplace@988440dCVE-2026-35454 is a Path Traversal vulnerability in github.com/coder/code-marketplace. A fix is available for github.com/coder/code-marketplace — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Code Extension Marketplace has a Zip Slip 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-2026-35454.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
Real-World Exposure
github.com/coder/code-marketplaceReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Zip Slip Path Traversal in coder/code-marketplace
Summary
A Zip Slip (CWE-22) vulnerability in coder/code-marketplace ≤ v2.4.1 allowed a malicious VSIX file to write arbitrary files outside the extension directory. ExtractZip passed raw zip entry names to a callback that wrote files via filepath.Join with no boundary check; filepath.Join resolved .. components but did not prevent the result from escaping the base path.
Root Cause
ExtractZip passed the raw, attacker-controlled zf.Name to a caller-supplied callback:
return false, fn(zf.Name, zr) // zf.Name not sanitized
AddExtension constructed the output path with filepath.Join and no boundary check:
path := filepath.Join(dir, name) // zip loop
path := filepath.Join(dir, file.RelativePath) // extra files loop
filepath.Clean resolved .. lexically but did not confine the result to dir:
filepath.Join("/srv/ext/pub/1.0", "../../../../etc/cron.d/evil")
→ "/etc/cron.d/evil"
Attack Scenario
An authenticated user (any upload-capable role) would submit a VSIX containing path-traversal entries.
On extraction, files would land at attacker-chosen paths writable by the marketplace process, enabling persistence (cron/init injection), SSH key injection, ld.so.preload hijacking, or binary overwrite depending on process privileges.
Fix
Addressed in https://github.com/coder/code-marketplace/releases/tag/v2.4.2
Recognition
Coder would like to thank Kandlaguduru Vamsi for responsibly disclosing this issue in accordance with https://coder.com/security/policy
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/coder/code-marketplace | all versions | 1.2.3-0.20260402184705-988440dee05fgo get github.com/coder/code-marketplace@v1.2.3-0.20260402184705-988440dee05f |
Affected Products
code-marketplacecoderDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/coder/code-marketplace, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/coder/code-marketplace to 1.2.3-0.20260402184705-988440dee05f or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-35454 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
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