CVE-2024-36137

State: Published
Severity: 3.3 Low
Published: Sep 7, 2024
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: May 21, 2024

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, affecting users of the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-write flag is used.

Node.js Permission Model do not operate on file descriptors, however, operations such as fs.fchown or fs.fchmod can use a "read-only" file descriptor to change the owner and permissions of a file.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	hackerone

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NodeNodeJS	4.0 to before 4.Affected 5.0 to before 5.Affected 6.0 to before 6.Affected 7.0 to before 7.Affected 8.0 to before 8.Affected 9.0 to before 9.Affected 10.0 to before 10.Affected 11.0 to before 11.Affected 12.0 to before 12.Affected 13.0 to before 13.Affected 14.0 to before 14.Affected 15.0 to before 15.Affected 16.0 to before 16.Affected 17.0 to before 17.Affected 19.0 to before 19.Affected 20.0 to before 20.15.1Affected 21.0 to before 21.Affected 22.0 to before 22.4.1Affected

Product

Versions

NodeNodeJS

4.0 to before 4.*Affected
5.0 to before 5.*Affected
6.0 to before 6.*Affected
7.0 to before 7.*Affected
8.0 to before 8.*Affected
9.0 to before 9.*Affected
10.0 to before 10.*Affected
11.0 to before 11.*Affected
12.0 to before 12.*Affected
13.0 to before 13.*Affected
14.0 to before 14.*Affected
15.0 to before 15.*Affected
16.0 to before 16.*Affected
17.0 to before 17.*Affected
19.0 to before 19.*Affected
20.0 to before 20.15.1Affected
21.0 to before 21.*Affected
22.0 to before 22.4.1Affected

References

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