CVE-2025-23084

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.6%

Medium (5.5) in nodejs node.js. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2025-01-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nodejs:node.js

References

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/22/2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0003/

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