CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-23165

3.7 LOW Published 2025-05-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-05-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In Node.js, the `ReadFileUtf8` internal binding leaks memory due to a corrupted pointer in `uv_fs_s.file`: a UTF-16 path buffer is allocated but subsequently overwritten when the file descriptor is set. This results in an unrecoverable memory leak on every call. Repeated use can cause unbounded memory growth, leading to a denial of service. Impact: * This vulnerability affects APIs relying on `ReadFileUtf8` on Node.js release lines: v20 and v22.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

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