CVE-2025-23084

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.

How to fix CVE-2025-23084

To remediate CVE-2025-23084, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 22.13.1-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 18.20.6 or later
• —upgrade to 18.20.6 or later

Is CVE-2025-23084 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• from 0, < 22.13.1-r0
• from 0, < 18.20.6, >= 19.0.0, < 20.18.2, >= 21.0.0, < 22.13.1, >= 23.0.0, < 23.8.0
• from 0, < 18.20.6, >= 19.0.0, < 20.18.2, >= 21.0.0, < 22.13.1, >= 23.0.0, < 23.8.0

CVSS scores

References (5)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-23084
• WEBnodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases
• WEBnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23084
• WEBsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0003/