CVE-2017-16024: Node.js

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sync-exec module is used to simulate child_process.execSync in node versions <0.11.9. Sync-exec uses tmp directories as a buffer before returning values. Other users on the server have read access to the tmp directory, possibly allowing an attacker on the server to obtain confidential information from the buffer/tmp file, while it exists.

Affected products

• Node.js Node.js: before 0.11.9 (fixed in 0.11.9)
• Sync-Exec Project Sync-Exec: up to and including 0.6.2

Published 2018-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.