Detections
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CVE-2024-36137
high
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. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 22. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js. Impact: Thank you, to 4xpl0r3r for reporting this vulnerability and thank you RafaelGSS for fixing it.