vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-55130: Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jan 20, 2026
Added
Jan 21, 2026
Modified
Feb 4, 2026

Description

A flaw in Node.js’s Permissions model allows attackers to bypass `--allow-fs-read` and `--allow-fs-write` restrictions using crafted relative symlink paths. By chaining directories and symlinks, a script granted access only to the current directory can escape the allowed path and read sensitive files. This breaks the expected isolation guarantees and enables arbitrary file read/write, leading to potential system compromise.
This vulnerability affects users of the permission model on Node.js v20, v22, v24, and v25.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs
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