CVE-2025-23084 (GCVE-0-2025-23084)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-28 04:35
Modified
2025-04-30 22:25
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
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