Critical RCE Vulnerability in React Native CLI Exposes Millions of Developers

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Critical RCE Vulnerability in React Native CLI Exposes Millions of Developers

First seen 2 Dec 2025, 18:33 UTC • •40.9

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

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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Vulnerability (1)

CVE-2025-11953

Affected Platform (2)

React Native CLI
React Native Community CLI

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Npm
React Native

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

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