{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00016453","kind":"vulnerability","title":"consciousness-explorer / sublinear-time-solver MCP export_state has an arbitrary file write","revision":2,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected.","NVD lastModified does not establish freshness of every associated CPE record."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-xc9g-j69q-37xw","CVE-2026-55609"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for consciousness-explorer, sublinear-time-solver. 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The MCP `export_state` (and `import_state`) 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/authorized_keys`, application files), leading to integrity loss and potential service disruption.\n\nThe same sink class was present in the main solver MCP server (`saveVectorToFile` / `loadVectorFromFile`).\n\n### Affected versions\n- `consciousness-explorer` < 1.1.2\n- `sublinear-time-solver` < 1.6.0\n- `sublinear` (crates.io) < 0.2.0\n\n### Patches\n- `consciousness-explorer@1.1.2`\n- `sublinear-time-solver@1.6.0`\n- `sublinear@0.2.0`\n\nState/vector files are now confined to a dedicated directory (overridable via `$CONSCIOUSNESS_EXPLORER_STATE_DIR` / `$SUBLINEAR_SOLVER_VECTOR_DIR`), a basename-only contract is enforced (rejecting separators, `..`, NUL/control chars, hidden files, a","public_affected_ranges":["< 1.1.2"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-726316ee6013b805166c884c73e88e42"],"technology":"sublinear-time-solver","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Impact\nAn arbitrary file write vulnerability (CWE-73, External Control of File Name or Path) exists in the `consciousness-explorer` component of `sublinear-time-solver`. 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The MCP `export_state` (and `import_state`) tool accepted a user-supplied `filepath` argument and passed it directly to `fs.writeFileSync` / `fs.readFileSync` without constraining the destination or rejecting path traversal. 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