RHSA-2024:1688

A vulnerability in Node.js HTTP servers allows an attacker to send a specially crafted HTTP request with chunked encoding, leading to resource exhaustion and denial of service (DoS).

The permission model protects itself against path traversal attacks by calling path.resolve() on any paths given by the user.

Node.js depends on multiple built-in utility functions to normalize paths provided to node:fs functions, which can be overwitten with user-defined implementations leading to filesystem permission model bypass through pat…

On Linux, Node.js ignores certain environment variables if those may have been set by an unprivileged user while the process is running with elevated privileges with the only exception of CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE.

Node.js versions which bundle an unpatched version of OpenSSL or run against a dynamically linked version of OpenSSL which are unpatched are vulnerable to the Marvin Attack - https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/, if…

setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid().

The Node.js Permission Model does not clarify in the documentation that wildcards should be only used as the last character of a file path.