CVE-2026-49406: Deno: BYONM module resolution allows `package.json` main path traversal to bypass `--allow-read` restrictions
When Deno was run in BYONM mode (nodeModulesDir: "manual"), the module resolver did not validate that a package’s resolved entrypoint stayed within its node_modules/<pkg>/ directory. A malicious package.json whose main field contained .. segments was able to resolve to an arbitrary path on disk, and the resolver then read that file without consulting the --allow-read allowlist. This let a require("evil-pkg") call return the contents of a file that a direct Deno.readTextFileSync(...) call would have been blocked from reading.
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