Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-21890

Medium

Published: 20 February 2024

Published
20 February 2024
Modified
12 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0144 81.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-21890 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Nodejs Node.Js. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Node.js Permission Model does not clarify in the documentation that wildcards should be only used as the last character of a file path. For example: ``` --allow-fs-read=/home/node/.ssh/*.pub ``` will ignore `pub` and give access to everything after `.ssh/`. This…

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misleading documentation affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

nodejs
node.js
20.0.0 — 20.11.1 · 21.0.0 — 21.6.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References