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Red Hat: CVE-2024-21890: nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-21890: nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
02/20/2024
Created
04/10/2024
Added
04/09/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

References

  • CVE-2024-21890
  • RHSA-2024:1687
  • RHSA-2024:1688

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