Bug 2265727 (CVE-2024-22017)

Summary: CVE-2024-22017 nodejs: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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A flaw was found in Node.js, where the setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid(). This issue allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid().
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Bug Depends On: 2265728    
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Description Robb Gatica 2024-02-23 19:47:43 UTC 
setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid(). This allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid().

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This vulnerability affects all users in active release lines: 20.x, and 21.x.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-02-23 19:48:14 UTC 
Created nodejs20 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2265728]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-08 08:50:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:1688 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1688
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-08 09:04:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:1687 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1687