{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including node and node-min. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21896 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 20.12.0 or 22.1.0.","what":"CVE-2024-21896 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 20 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-21896 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-21896 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 20 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21896 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- node (Bitnami): affected from 20.0.0; fixed in 20.12.0, 22.1.0\n- node-min (Bitnami): affected from 20.0.0; fixed in 20.18.1, 22.12.0\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21896/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-21896","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21896/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-21896","record":{"aliases":["AZL-35053","BELL-CVE-2024-21896","BIT-node-2024-21896","BIT-node-min-2024-21896","GHSA-3q5r-g7hx-jv3c"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Node.js runtime","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can bypass Node.js permission model path checks via Buffer monkey-patching, enabling path traversal in experimental features.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"hackerone","cpe":[{"product":"node.js","vendor":"nodejs"}],"cvss":{"score":7.9,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N/CR:M/IR:M/AR:M","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-27","name":"Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'"}],"description":"The permission model protects itself against path traversal attacks by calling path.resolve() on any paths given by the user. If the path is to be treated as a Buffer, the implementation uses Buffer.from() to obtain a Buffer from the result of path.resolve(). By monkey-patching Buffer internals, namely, Buffer.prototype.utf8Write, the application can modify the result of path.resolve(), which leads to a path traversal vulnerability.\nThis vulnerability affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21.\nPlease note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in Node","id":"CVE-2024-21896","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"nodejs:node.js","products":["nodejs:node.js"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2024"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"QTS, QuTS hero","id":"CVE-2024-21897"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["20.12.0","22.1.0"],"introduced":["20.0.0","21.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"node","purl":"pkg:bitnami/node","source":"BIT-node-2024-21896"},{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["20.18.1","22.12.0"],"introduced":["20.0.0","21.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"node-min","purl":"pkg:bitnami/node-min","source":"BIT-node-min-2024-21896"}],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in Connect Secure","id":"CVE-2024-21894"},"products":["Node"],"published":"2024-02-20","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Security feature bypass in Node","id":"CVE-2023-32002","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-6303","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-09-16"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Security feature bypass in Node.js","id":"CVE-2017-15896","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-11"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Server-side request forgery in Node.js","id":"CVE-2018-7160","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-17"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Misconfiguration in Node.js","id":"CVE-2018-12120","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-11-28"},{"cvss_score":7.9,"headline":"Path traversal in Node","id":"CVE-2024-21891","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-20"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-04-30","vendors":["NodeJS"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass Node.js permission model path checks via Buffer monkey-patching, enabling path traversal in experimental features.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21896/"}