CVE-2025-23090 Affecting nodejs-22 package, versions <22.13.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-NODEJS22-8663279
  • published26 Jan 2025
  • disclosed22 Jan 2025

Introduced: 22 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2025-23090  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard nodejs-22 to version 22.13.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-22 package and not the nodejs-22 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage.

This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.