CVE-2026-35454: Code Extension Marketplace has a Zip Slip Path Traversal
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:
go return false, fn(zf.Name, zr) // zf.Name not sanitized
AddExtension constructed the output path with filepath.Join and no boundary check:
go 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
Other sources
The Code Extension Marketplace is an open-source alternative to the VS Code Marketplace. Prior to 2.4.2, Zip Slip vulnerability in coder/code-marketplace 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.2.
— MITRE
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade
go/github.com/coder/code-marketplaceto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.2.3-0.20260402184705-988440dee05f - Upgrade
Upgrade
coder/code-marketplaceto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 2.4.2