Security Advisory

CVE-2021-22921

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-07-12 10:22:24

Last updated 2025-04-30 22:24:32

Assigner hackerone

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Node.js before 16.4.1, 14.17.2, and 12.22.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks under certain conditions on Windows platforms. More specifically, improper configuration of permissions in the installation directory allows an attacker to perform two different escalation attacks: PATH and DLL hijacking.

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