CVE-2025-23084 Path traversal in Node

What is CVE-2025-23084?

CVE-2025-23084 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 28 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment. Certain Node.js functions do not treat drive names as special on Windows. As a result, although Node.js assumes a relative path, it actually refers to the root directory. On Windows, a path that does not start with the file separator is treated as relative to the current directory. This vulnerability affects Windows users of `path.join` API.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23084?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including node and node-min. It affects 1 product.

Products include Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2025-23084?

Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 18.20.6, 20.18.2, 22.13.1 or 23.8.0.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-23084 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23084 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2023-32002 Security feature bypass in Node Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6303 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-15896 Security feature bypass in Node.js Critical 9.1
• CVE-2018-7160 Server-side request forgery in Node.js High 8.8
• CVE-2018-12120 Misconfiguration in Node.js High 8.1

All Nodejs Node.js vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2025-23084, BIT-node-2025-23084, BIT-node-min-2025-23084, GHSA-37v4-cwgp-x353, MINI-6hrr-wcqg-3rxq, MINI-7m2g-ph5q-w459 and 3 more.