Description

Bypass incomplete fix of CVE-2024-27980, that arises from improper handling of batch files with all possible extensions on Windows via child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync. A malicious command line argument can inject arbitrary commands and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-36138

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: NodeJS

Product: Node

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.26% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 49.76% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-29 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36138
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/july-2024-security-releases

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