description: setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid().
This allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid().
This vulnerability affects all users using version greater or equal than Node.js 18.18.0, Node.js 20.4.0 and Node.js 21.
affected:
{
vendor: Node.js
product: Node.js
versions:
version: 18.18.0, status: affected, lessThanOrEqual: 18.18.0, versionType: semver
version: 20.4.0, status: unaffected, lessThanOrEqual: 20.4.0, versionType: semver
version: 21.6.1, status: unaffected, lessThanOrEqual: 21.6.1, versionType: semver
}
metrics:
cvssV3_0: [
version: 3.0
vectorString: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
baseScore: 7.3
baseSeverity: HIGH
]