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Critical RCE Vulnerability in React Native CLI Exposes Millions of Developers

First seen 2 Dec 2025, 18:33 UTC • Thehackernews

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A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2025-11953) has been identified in the React Native CLI, affecting developers using versions 4.8.0 to 20.0.0-alpha.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the Metro development server, which binds to all network interfaces by default.

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10 entities, 17 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Technique (4)

Data Breach
Malware
Remote Code Execution
Zero-day Exploit

Vulnerability (1)

CVE-2025-11953

Affected Platform (3)

Metro
React Native CLI
React Native Community CLI

Tool (2)

Npm
React Native

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Npm exploits CVE-2025-11953
React Native exploits CVE-2025-11953
CVE-2025-11953 targets Metro
CVE-2025-11953 targets React Native CLI
CVE-2025-11953 targets React Native Community CLI
Data Breach targets Metro
Data Breach targets React Native CLI
Data Breach targets React Native Community CLI
Malware targets Metro
Malware targets React Native CLI
Malware targets React Native Community CLI
Remote Code Execution targets Metro
Remote Code Execution targets React Native CLI
Remote Code Execution targets React Native Community CLI
Zero-day Exploit targets Metro
Zero-day Exploit targets React Native CLI
Zero-day Exploit targets React Native Community CLI

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Metro React Native CLI React Native Community CLI Data Breach Malware Remote Code Execution Zero-day Exploit Npm React Native

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