CVE-2025-23084: Node.js

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Node.js Node.js: from 18.0, before 18.20.6 (fixed in 18.20.6); from 20.0, before 20.18.2 (fixed in 20.18.2); from 22.0, before 22.13.1 (fixed in 22.13.1); from 23.0, before 23.6.1 (fixed in 23.6.1)

Published 2025-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.