vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2024-36137: Node.js: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 7, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, affecting users of the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-write flag is used.

Node.js Permission Model do not operate on file descriptors, however, operations such as fs.fchown or fs.fchmod can use a "read-only" file descriptor to change the owner and permissions of a file.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-nodejs
Title
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