Missing Authorization Affecting nodejs package, versions [0,]
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- published26 Mar 2026
- disclosed26 Mar 2026
- creditwooseokdotkim
Introduced: 26 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-21716 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization via FileHandle.chmod or FileHandle.chown functions which can use a "read-only" file descriptor to change the owner and permissions of a file.
Notes:
This is only exploitable for users using the experimental permission when the
--allow-fs-writeflag is used;This is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-36137.