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CVE-2024-21890

nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 19, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Node.js Permission Model, where it is not clarified in the documentation that wildcards should only be used as the last character of a file path. For example: --allow-fs-read=/home/node/.ssh/*.pub will ignore pub and give access to everything after .ssh/.

Statement

This misleading documentation affects all users using the experimental permission model in active release lines 20.x and 21.x.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-1059 · Insufficient Technical Documentation