CVE-2020-8174
nodejs: memory corruption in napi_get_value_string_* functions
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 2, 2020
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in nodejs. Calling napi_get_value_string_latin1(), napi_get_value_string_utf8(), or napi_get_value_string_utf16() with a non-NULL buf, and a bufsize of 0 will cause the entire string value to be written to buf, probably overrunning the length of the buffer.
Statement
NodeJS is a build time dependency of Red Hat Quay and is not used at runtime. Therefore this issue will not fixed in Quay 3.3.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer