Path Traversal Affecting node package, versions [20.0.0,20.11.1) [21.0.0,21.6.2)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (15th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-6252334
- published 18 Feb 2024
- disclosed 13 Feb 2024
- credit Tobias Nießen
Introduced: 13 Feb 2024
CVE-2024-21896 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade node to version 20.11.1, 21.6.2 or higher.
Overview
node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal by monkeypatching Buffer.prototype.utf8Write in Buffer.from(), which is invoked by path.resolve() in resolving paths which are treated as buffers.
Note: The vulnerable permission model feature is experimental at the time of this vulnerability's discovery.