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Medium severity · published Jan 28, 2025
CVE-2025-23084
A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment
5.5
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NO
Node · NodeJS
4.0 before 4.*; 5.0 before 5.*; 6.0 before 6.*; 7.0 before 7.*; 8.0 before 8.*; 9.0 before 9.*; +14 more · source: vendor
NO
Node.js · Nodejs
18.0 before 18.20.6; 20.0 before 20.18.2; 22.0 before 22.13.1; 23.0 before 23.6.1 · source: NVD
Affected product
NO
Node
NodeJS
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23084
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23084
Vendor Advisory
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/22/2
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0003/
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