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medium 5.6

CVE-2025-23084 json

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment.

published 2025-01-28 21 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-node-2025-23084 , BIT-node-min-2025-23084 , EUVD-2025-3112

cvss
5.6
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami node 18.20.6, 20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.8.0
  • bitnami node-min 18.20.6, 20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.8.0
  • NodeJS Node 18.20.6, 20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.6.1
  • nodejs Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 22.13.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-23084

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami node
<18.20.6
>=19.0.0, <20.18.2
>=21.0.0, <22.13.1
>=23.0.0, <23.8.0
18.20.6
20.18.2
22.13.1
23.8.0
bitnami node-min
<18.20.6
>=19.0.0, <20.18.2
>=21.0.0, <22.13.1
>=23.0.0, <23.8.0
18.20.6
20.18.2
22.13.1
23.8.0

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.

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