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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs:16/nodejs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NODEJS-5971635
  • published17 Oct 2023
  • disclosed13 Oct 2023
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Introduced: 13 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-39332  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs:16/nodejs package and not the nodejs:16/nodejs package as distributed by RHEL.

Various node:fs functions allow specifying paths as either strings or Uint8Array objects. In Node.js environments, the Buffer class extends the Uint8Array class. Node.js prevents path traversal through strings (see CVE-2023-30584) and Buffer objects (see CVE-2023-32004), but not through non-Buffer Uint8Array objects.

This is distinct from CVE-2023-32004 which only referred to Buffer objects. However, the vulnerability follows the same pattern using Uint8Array instead of Buffer.

Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.