vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-22017: Important priority package update for nodejs20

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 19, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid().
This allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid().
This vulnerability affects all users using version greater or equal than Node.js 18.18.0, Node.js 20.4.0 and Node.js 21.
A flaw was found in Node.js, where the setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid(). This issue allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid().

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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