GeezerVison

Details

Impact

Using @babel/core to compile maliciously crafted code can allow ab attacker to read any source map from the system that is running Babel, if these conditions are all true:

• the attacker controls the input source code
• the attacker can read the output source code
• the attacker knows the path of the source map file that they want to read

Users that only compile trusted code are not impacted.

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed in @babel/[email protected] and @babel/[email protected].

Workarounds

Callers can mitigate the issue without upgrading by setting inputSourceMap: false in their Babel options.

Callers can also manually extract the #sourceMappingURL comment from the input source code, validate whether the source map that it links to is allowed to be read, and if it is pass an object to inputSourceMap (passing false when it's not).

Credits

Thanks Teodor-Cristian Radoi for reporting the vulnerability.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 3.2 / 10 (Low)
• Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

• https://github.com/babel/babel/security/advisories/GHSA-4x5r-pxfx-6jf8
• https://babeljs.io/docs/options#inputsourcemap
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49356
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4x5r-pxfx-6jf8

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

v7.29.6

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v7.29.6 (2026-05-25)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-generator
  • #​18014 Catchup source map position in preserveFormat (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-core
  • #​18001 [7.x packport]Improve input source map handling (@​JLHwung)
• babel-core, babel-generator
  • #​17998 Preserve original identifier names from input sourcemaps (#​17992) (@​Andarist)

Committers: 3

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Mateusz Burzyński (@​Andarist)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

v7.29.0

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v7.29.0 (2026-01-31)

Thanks @​simbahax for your first PR!

🚀 New Feature

• babel-types
  • #​17750 [7.x backport] Add attributes import declaration builder (@​JLHwung)
• babel-standalone
  • #​17663 [7.x backport] feat(standalone): export async transform (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17725 [7.x backport] feat: read standalone targets from data-targets (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #​17765 fix(parser): correctly parse type assertions in extends clause (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
  • #​17723 [7.x backport] fix(parser): improve super type argument parsing (@​JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #​17708 fix(traverse): provide a hub when traversing a File or Program and no parentPath is given (@​simbahax)
• babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-traverse
  • #​17737 [7.x backport] fix: Rename switch discriminant references when body creates shadowing variable (@​magic-akari)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-generator, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17642 [Babel 7] Improve generator performance (@​liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 6

• David (@​simbahax)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• @​magic-akari

v7.28.6

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v7.28.6 (2026-01-12)

Thanks @​kadhirash and @​kolvian for your first PRs!

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-cli, babel-code-frame, babel-core, babel-helper-check-duplicate-nodes, babel-helper-fixtures, babel-helper-plugin-utils, babel-node, babel-plugin-transform-flow-comments, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-plugin-transform-property-mutators, babel-preset-env, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17589 Improve Unicode handling in code-frame tokenizer (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-regenerator
  • #​17556 fix: transform-regenerator correctly handles scope (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx
  • #​17538 fix: Keep jsx comments (@​liuxingbaoyu)

💅 Polish

• babel-core, babel-standalone
  • #​17606 Polish(standalone): improve message on invalid preset/plugin (@​JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-plugin-bugfix-v8-static-class-fields-redefine-readonly, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-proposal-import-attributes-to-assertions, babel-plugin-proposal-import-wasm-source, babel-plugin-syntax-async-do-expressions, babel-plugin-syntax-decorators, babel-plugin-syntax-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-syntax-do-expressions, babel-plugin-syntax-explicit-resource-management, babel-plugin-syntax-export-default-from, babel-plugin-syntax-flow, babel-plugin-syntax-function-bind, babel-plugin-syntax-function-sent, babel-plugin-syntax-import-assertions, babel-plugin-syntax-import-attributes, babel-plugin-syntax-import-defer, babel-plugin-syntax-import-source, babel-plugin-syntax-jsx, babel-plugin-syntax-module-blocks, babel-plugin-syntax-optional-chaining-assign, babel-plugin-syntax-partial-application, babel-plugin-syntax-pipeline-operator, babel-plugin-syntax-throw-expressions, babel-plugin-syntax-typescript, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-class-properties, babel-plugin-transform-class-static-block, babel-plugin-transform-dotall-regex, babel-plugin-transform-duplicate-named-capturing-groups-regex, babel-plugin-transform-explicit-resource-management, babel-plugin-transform-exponentiation-operator, babel-plugin-transform-json-strings, babel-plugin-transform-logical-assignment-operators, babel-plugin-transform-nullish-coalescing-operator, babel-plugin-transform-numeric-separator, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-optional-catch-binding, babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining, babel-plugin-transform-private-methods, babel-plugin-transform-private-property-in-object, babel-plugin-transform-regexp-modifiers, babel-plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex, babel-plugin-transform-unicode-sets-regex
  • #​17580 Allow Babel 8 in compatible Babel 7 plugins (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx
  • #​17555 perf: Use lighter traversal for jsx __source,__self (@​liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 7

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Eliot Pontarelli (@​kolvian)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Kadhirash Sivakumar (@​kadhirash)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• coderaiser (@​coderaiser)

v7.28.5

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v7.28.5 (2025-10-23)

Thank you @​CO0Ki3, @​Olexandr88, and @​youthfulhps for your first PRs!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #​17446 Allow Runtime Errors for Function Call Assignment Targets (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-validator-identifier
  • #​17501 fix: update identifier to unicode 17 (@​fisker)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private
  • #​17534 Allow mixing private destructuring and rest (@​CO0Ki3)
• babel-parser
  • #​17521 Improve @babel/parser error typing (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17491 fix: improve ts-only declaration parsing (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring
  • #​17519 fix: rest correctly returns plain array (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-member-expression-to-functions, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17503 Fix JSXIdentifier handling in isReferencedIdentifier (@​JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #​17504 fix: ensure scope.push register in anonymous fn (@​JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-types
  • #​17494 Type checking babel-types scripts (@​JLHwung)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-core
  • #​17490 Faster finding of locations in buildCodeFrameError (@​liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 8

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Byeongho Yoo (@​youthfulhps)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Hyeon Dokko (@​CO0Ki3)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​Olexandr88
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• fisker Cheung (@​fisker)

v7.28.4

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v7.28.4 (2025-09-05)

Thanks @​gwillen and @​mrginglymus for your first PRs!

🏠 Internal

• babel-core, babel-helper-check-duplicate-nodes, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17493 Update Jest to v30.1.1 (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-regenerator
  • #​17455 chore: Clean up transform-regenerator (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-core
  • #​17474 Switch to @​jridgewell/remapping (@​mrginglymus)

Committers: 5

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Bill Collins (@​mrginglymus)
• Glenn Willen (@​gwillen)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• @​liuxingbaoyu

v7.28.3

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v7.28.3 (2025-08-14)

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-class-static-block, babel-preset-env
  • #​17443 [static blocks] Do not inject new static fields after static code (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #​17465 fix(parser/typescript): parse import("./a", {with:{},}) (@​easrng)
  • #​17478 fix(parser): stop subscript parsing on async arrow (@​JLHwung)

💅 Polish

• babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime
  • #​17363 Do not save last yield in call in temp var (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

📝 Documentation

• #​17448 move eslint-{parser,plugin} docs to the website (@​JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• #​17454 Enable type checking for scripts and babel-worker.cjs (@​JLHwung)

🔬 Output optimization

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions
  • #​17444 Optimize do expression output (@​JLHwung)

Committers: 5

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Jam Balaya (@​JamBalaya56562)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• easrng (@​easrng)

v7.28.0

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v7.28.0 (2025-07-02)

🚀 New Feature

• babel-node
  • #​17147 Support top level await in node repl (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-types
  • #​17258 feat(matchesPattern): support super/private/meta (@​JLHwung)
• babel-compat-data, babel-preset-env
  • #​17355 Add explicit resource management to preset-env (@​JLHwung)
• babel-core, babel-parser
  • #​17390 Support sourceType: "commonjs" (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser
  • #​17346 Materialize explicitResourceManagement parser plugin (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17391 LVal coverage updates (Part 2) (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17378 Accept bigints in t.bigIntLiteral factory (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-explicit-resource-management, babel-plugin-transform-react-display-name, babel-types
  • #​17277 Transform discard binding (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-typescript, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17163 Parse discard binding (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-helper-globals, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-traverse
  • #​17297 Create babel-helper-globals (@​JLHwung)
• babel-types
  • #​17009 feature: TSTypeOperator: keyof (#​16799) (@​coderaiser)

🏠 Internal

• babel-compat-data, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-json-modules, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17403 Update babel-polyfill packages (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

Committers: 5

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• coderaiser (@​coderaiser)

v7.27.7

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v7.27.7 (2025-06-26)

Thanks @​arthur-mountain and @​evankanderson for your first PRs!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser, babel-plugin-transform-classes
  • #​17203 Interepret parser allow* options as top level only (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser
  • #​17371 fix: disable using in ambient context (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-core
  • #​17392 Improve TS babel config loading (@​JLHwung)
• babel-types
  • #​17376 fix: support negative bigint in valueToNode (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-parameters
  • #​17352 fix: Params of async function* should throw synchronously (@​liuxingbaoyu)

🏠 Internal

• babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread
  • #​17389 Use NodePath#splitExportDeclaration in destructuring transforms (@​JLHwung)

Committers: 6

• Arthur (@​arthur-mountain)
• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Evan Anderson (@​evankanderson)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu

v7.27.4

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v7.27.4 (2025-05-30)

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser, babel-plugin-proposal-explicit-resource-management
  • #​17323 Disallow using in bare case statement (@​JLHwung)

💅 Polish

• babel-parser
  • #​17311 Improve parseExpression error messages (@​JLHwung)

🔬 Output optimization

• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs2, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-runtime
  • #​17287 Reduce regenerator size more (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17334 Use shorter method names for regenerator context (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
  • #​17268 Reduce regenerator helper size (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-core, babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs2, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-runtime, babel-standalone
  • #​17238 Split regeneratorRuntime into multiple helpers (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

Committers: 4

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu

v7.27.3

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v7.27.3 (2025-05-27)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-generator
  • #​17324 Improve multiline comments handling in yield/await expression (@​JLHwung)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17328 Correctly set .displayName on GeneratorFunction (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-plugin-proposal-explicit-resource-management
  • #​17319 fix: handle shadowed binding in for using of body (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17317 fix: support named evaluation for using declaration (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-types
  • #​17321 fix(converter): Remove abstract modifiers in class declaration to expression conversion (@​magic-akari)
• babel-helper-module-transforms, babel-plugin-proposal-explicit-resource-management, babel-plugin-transform-modules-amd, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-plugin-transform-modules-umd
  • #​17257 Preserve class id when transforming using declarations with exported class (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser
  • #​17312 fix(parser): properly handle optional markers in generator class methods (@​magic-akari)
  • #​17307 fix(parser): Terminate modifier parsing at newline (@​magic-akari)
• babel-generator, babel-parser
  • #​17308 Improve import phase parsing (@​JLHwung)

Committers: 7

• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• Vik R (@​vikr01)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• @​magic-akari
• fisker Cheung (@​fisker)

v7.27.1

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v7.27.1 (2025-04-30)

Thanks @​kermanx and @​woaitsAryan for your first PRs!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #​17254 Allow using of as lexical declaration within for (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17230 Disallow get/set in TSPropertySignature (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser, babel-types
  • #​17193 Stricter TSImportType options parsing (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions, babel-traverse
  • #​17137 fix: do expressions should allow early exit (@​kermanx)
• babel-helper-wrap-function, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator
  • #​17251 Fix: propagate argument evaluation errors through async promise chain (@​magic-akari)
• babel-helper-remap-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator
  • #​17231 fix apply()/call() annotated as pure (@​Lacsw)
• babel-helper-fixtures, babel-parser
  • #​17233 Create ChainExpression within TSInstantiationExpression (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser
  • #​17226 Fill optional AST properties when both estree and typescript parser plugin are enabled (Part 2) (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser
  • #​17224 Fill optional AST properties when both estree and typescript parser plugin are enabled (Part 1) (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17080 Fix start of TSParameterProperty (@​JLHwung)
• babel-compat-data, babel-preset-env
  • #​17228 Update firefox bugfix compat data (@​JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #​17156 fix: Objects and arrays with multiple references should not be evaluated (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-generator
  • #​17216 Fix: support const type parameter in generator (@​JLHwung)

💅 Polish

• babel-plugin-bugfix-v8-spread-parameters-in-optional-chaining, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-arrow-functions, babel-plugin-transform-class-properties, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining, babel-plugin-transform-parameters, babel-traverse
  • #​17221 Reduce generated names size for the 10th-11th (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🏠 Internal

• babel-runtime-corejs2, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-runtime
  • #​17263 Remove unused regenerator-runtime dep in @babel/runtime (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-compat-data, babel-preset-env
  • #​17256 Tune plugin compat data (@​JLHwung)
• babel-compat-data, babel-standalone
  • #​17236 migrate babel-compat-data build script to mjs (@​JLHwung)
• babel-register
  • #​16844 Migrate @babel/register to cts (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17205 Inline regenerator in the relevant packages (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• All packages
  • #​17207 Enforce node protocol import (@​JLHwung)

🔬 Output optimization

• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​16538 Reduce interopRequireWildcard size (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17213 Reduce regeneratorRuntime size (@​liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 9

• Aryan Bharti (@​woaitsAryan)
• Babel Bot (@​babel-bot)
• Frolov Roman (@​Lacsw)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• @​magic-akari
• _Kerman (@​kermanx)
• fisker Cheung (@​fisker)