CVE-2026-21716 PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone
Reserved: 04.01.2026 Published: 30.03.2026 Updated: 31.03.2026

An incomplete fix for CVE-2024-36137 leaves FileHandle.chmod() and FileHandle.chown() in the promises API without the required permission checks, while their callback-based equivalents (fs.fchmod(), fs.fchown()) were correctly patched.

As a result, code running under --permission with restricted --allow-fs-write can still use promise-based FileHandle methods to modify file permissions and ownership on already-open file descriptors, bypassing the intended write restrictions.

This vulnerability affects 20.x, 22.x, 24.x, and 25.x processes using the Permission Model where --allow-fs-write is intentionally restricted.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.3

Product Status

Vendor nodejs
Product node
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 20.20.1 to 20.20.1 (incl.)
  • affected from 22.22.1 to 22.22.1 (incl.)
  • affected from 24.14.0 to 24.14.0 (incl.)
  • affected from 25.8.1 to 25.8.1 (incl.)

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