vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-21890: Important priority package update for nodejs20

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 19, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

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 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.
A flaw was found in the Node.js Permission Model, where it is not clarified in the documentation that wildcards should only be 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/.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-docsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-full-i18namazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-libsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-libs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs20-npmamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-v8-11-3-devel
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