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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-09-10 07:13

Modified

2025-04-03 14:40

Summary

Details

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.

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CVE-2024-36137 (GCVE-0-2024-36137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-07 16:00 – Updated: 2025-04-30 22:25

Summary

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.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-09 18:06 UTC

CWE

CWE-noinfo Not enough information

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 185 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/july-202…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024112…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NodeJS	Node	Affected: 4.0 , < 4.* (semver) Affected: 5.0 , < 5.* (semver) Affected: 6.0 , < 6.* (semver) Affected: 7.0 , < 7.* (semver) Affected: 8.0 , < 8.* (semver) Affected: 9.0 , < 9.* (semver) Affected: 10.0 , < 10.* (semver) Affected: 11.0 , < 11.* (semver) Affected: 12.0 , < 12.* (semver) Affected: 13.0 , < 13.* (semver) Affected: 14.0 , < 14.* (semver) Affected: 15.0 , < 15.* (semver) Affected: 16.0 , < 16.* (semver) Affected: 17.0 , < 17.* (semver) Affected: 19.0 , < 19.* (semver) Affected: 20.0 , < 20.15.1 (semver) Affected: 21.0 , < 21.* (semver) Affected: 22.0 , < 22.4.1 (semver)

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