UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21890

The Node.js Permission Model does not clarify in the documentation that wildcards should be only used as the last character of a file path. For example: --allow-fs-read=/home/node/.ssh/.pub will ignore pub and give access to everything after .ssh/. This misleading documentation affects all users...

Internet Bug Bounty: OpenSSL engines can be used to bypass and/or disable the Node.js permission model

Arbitrary OpenSSL engines could be loaded in Node.js 20, bypassing and disabling the permission model. This allowed for the execution of arbitrary code, unaffected by the permission model...