CVE-2017-14849: Node.js

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 54.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules.

Affected products

• Node.js Node.js: version 8.5.0 only

Published 2017-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.