High, CVSS 7.1npmPublished
consciousness-explorer / sublinear-time-solver MCP export_state has an arbitrary file write
CVE-2026-55609 · GHSA-xc9g-j69q-37xw
- Affected
- npm sublinear-time-solver < 1.6.0
- Fixed in
- 1.6.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact An arbitrary file write vulnerability (CWE-73, External Control of File Name or Path) exists in the consciousness-explorer component of sublinear-time-solver. The MCP exportstate (and importstate) tool accepted a user-supplied filepath argument and passed it directly to fs.writeFileSync / fs.readFileSync without constraining the destination or rejecting path traversal. An attacker able to invoke the MCP tool could write or overwrite any file accessible to the server process (e.g. ~/.ssh/authorizedkeys, application files), leading to integrity loss and potential service disruption. The same sink class was present in the main solver MCP server (saveVectorToFile / loadVectorFromFile). Affected versions - consciousness-explorer < 1.1.2 - sublinear-time-solver < 1.6.0 - sublinear (crates.io) < 0.2.0 Patches - consciousness-explorer@1.1.2 - sublinear-time-solver@1.6.0 - sublinear@0.2.0 State/vector files are now confined to a dedicated directory (overridable via…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.6.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.