CVE-2025-23084A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment. Certain…
- 5.6MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| hackeroneCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Affected products
- affected 4.0 – < 4.*
- affected 5.0 – < 5.*
- affected 6.0 – < 6.*
- affected 7.0 – < 7.*
- affected 8.0 – < 8.*
- affected 9.0 – < 9.*
- affected 10.0 – < 10.*
- affected 11.0 – < 11.*
- affected 12.0 – < 12.*
- affected 13.0 – < 13.*
- affected 14.0 – < 14.*
- affected 15.0 – < 15.*
- affected 16.0 – < 16.*
- affected 17.0 – < 17.*
- affected 18.0 – < 18.20.6
- affected 19.0 – < 19.*
- affected 20.0 – < 20.18.2
- affected 21.0 – < 21.*
- affected 22.0 – < 22.13.1
- affected 23.0 – < 23.6.1
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-3112 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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