Riskcovery

CVE-2025-23084

State
Published
Severity
5.6 Medium
Published
Jan 28, 2025
Updated
Nov 4, 2025
Reserved
Jan 10, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment. Certain Node.js functions do not treat drive names as special on Windows. As a result, although Node.js assumes a relative path, it actually refers to the root directory.

On Windows, a path that does not start with the file separator is treated as relative to the current directory.

This vulnerability affects Windows users of `path.join` API.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.05.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nhackerone

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
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
  • 18.0 to before 18.20.6Affected
  • 19.0 to before 19.*Affected
  • 20.0 to before 20.18.2Affected
  • 21.0 to before 21.*Affected
  • 22.0 to before 22.13.1Affected
  • 23.0 to before 23.6.1Affected

References

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