Vulnerability Identified in Node.js Experimental Permission Model

CVE-2024-36137

What is CVE-2024-36137?

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.

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