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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23084

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-01-28 05:15 – Updated: 2025-06-02 17:33 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Details

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.

Severity

5.6 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-23084	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23084	REPORT
	https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-…	REPORT

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CVE-2025-23084 (GCVE-0-2025-23084)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-28 04:35 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:09

Summary

Severity

5.6 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-28 15:07 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025032…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/22/2

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: 18.0 , < 18.20.6 (semver) Affected: 19.0 , < 19.* (semver) Affected: 20.0 , < 20.18.2 (semver) Affected: 21.0 , < 21.* (semver) Affected: 22.0 , < 22.13.1 (semver) Affected: 23.0 , < 23.6.1 (semver)

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