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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-36137: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-36137: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/07/2024
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, affecting users of the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-write flag is used. Node.js Permission Model do not operate on file descriptors, however, operations such as fs.fchown or fs.fchmod can use a "read-only" file descriptor to change the owner and permissions of a file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs

References

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