CVE-2021-22940

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 13.86 % · percentile 97 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-08-16
Updated: 2025-04-30
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

Description

Node.js before 16.6.1, 14.17.5, and 12.22.5 is vulnerable to a use after free attack where an attacker might be able to exploit the memory corruption, to change process behavior.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-10069
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-22940

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-1051 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-510 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM QRadar · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-216 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-943 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-932 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.22.5
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 14.0.0 < 14.17.5
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 16.0.0 < 16.6.2
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:20.3.3:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:21.2.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jd_edwards_enterpriseone_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 9.2.6.1
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.57:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:nextgen_api:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:siemens:sinec_infrastructure_network_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 1.0.1.1
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
NodeJS · Node	affected 4.0 < 4.* ; affected 5.0 < 5.* ; affected 6.0 < 6.* ; affected 7.0 < 7.* ; affected 8.0 < 8.* ; affected 9.0 < 9.*

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD