🛡️ CVE-2024-22018 — node

🟢 CVSS 2.9 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
2.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, affecting users of the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-read flag is used.

This flaw arises from an inadequate permission model that fails to restrict file stats through the fs.lstat API. As a result, malicious actors can retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.

This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21.

Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2024-22018 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • node
  • node-min
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 12 July 2024 and last revised on 11 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

CVE-2024-22018 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-02-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
node — —
node-min — —
unknown — —

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