What is CVE-2025-23084?

CVE-2025-23084 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-01-28.

How severe is CVE-2025-23084?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-23084 known to be exploited?

5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Microsoft Windows

CVE-2025-23084

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the Windows environment. Certain Node.js functions do not treat drive names as special on Windows. As a result, although Node.js assumes a relative path, it actually refers to the root directory. On Windows, a path that does not start with the file separator is treated as relative to the current directory. This vulnerability affects Windows users of `path.join` API.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.014 (69.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows
Nodejs Node — versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
Nodejs Node.js

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23084?: CVE-2025-23084 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-01-28.
How severe is CVE-2025-23084?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-23084 known to be exploited?: 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.