Improper Handling of Values Affecting nodejs package, versions [,20.16.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-NODEJS-10670128
  • published9 Jul 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2024
  • credittniessen

Introduced: 9 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-37372  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-229  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nodejs to version 20.16.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Values. This is because the Permission Model assumes wrongly that any path starting with two backslashes \ has a four-character prefix that can be ignored.

Note: This vulnerability affects only Windows users of the Node.js Permission Model

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1