Privilege Escalation Affecting node package, versions [15.0.0,16.4.1)[13.0.0,14.17.2)[,12.22.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-1315789
  • published2 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-22921  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 16.4.1, 14.17.2, 12.22.2 or higher.

Overview

node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation under certain conditions on Windows platforms. More specifically, improper configuration of permissions in the installation directory allows an attacker to perform two different escalation attacks: PATH variable hijacking and DLL hijacking.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1