CVE-2020-8252

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8252
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8252.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-8252
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-09-18T21:15:13.497Z
Modified
2026-03-10T23:23:05.111550Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The implementation of realpath in libuv < 10.22.1, < 12.18.4, and < 14.9.0 used within Node.js incorrectly determined the buffer size which can result in a buffer overflow if the resolved path is longer than 256 bytes.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nodejs/node

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nodejs/node
Events
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "10.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "10.22.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "12.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "12.18.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "14.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "14.9.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "15.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8252.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "33"
            }
        ]
    }
]