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Fencer Vulns
low 3.6

CVE-2024-37372 json

The Permission Model assumes that any path starting with two backslashes \ has a four-character prefix that can be ignored, which is not al…

published 2025-01-09 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-node-2024-37372 , BIT-node-min-2024-37372 , EUVD-2024-36998

cvss
3.6
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Permission Model assumes that any path starting with two backslashes \ has a four-character prefix that can be ignored, which is not always true. This subtle bug leads to vulnerable edge cases.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami node 20.15.1, 22.4.1
  • bitnami node-min 20.18.1, 22.12.0
  • NodeJS Node 20.15.1, 22.4.1
  • nodejs20 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 20.15.1-150600.3.3.2
  • nodejs20 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 20.15.1-150500.11.12.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2574-1SUSE-SU-2024:2543-1

  • nodejs26 openSUSE Tumbleweed 26.3.1-1.1
  • nodejs24 openSUSE Tumbleweed 24.11.1-2.1
  • nodejs22 openSUSE Tumbleweed 22.10.0-1.1
  • nodejs20 openSUSE Tumbleweed 20.15.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11110-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15802-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14435-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14214-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-37372 updated cvss 3.6

nodejs: Permission model improperly processes UNC paths

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, nodejs, nodejs-libs, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs-full-i18n, nodejs-packaging, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 nodejs22
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 3.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.0 3.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami node
>=19.0.0, <20.15.1
>=21.0.0, <22.4.1
20.15.1
22.4.1
bitnami node-min
>=19.0.0, <20.18.1
>=21.0.0, <22.12.0
20.18.1
22.12.0

Affected products

  • NodeJS Node

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.