Node.js Trust Falls: Dangerous Module Resolution on Windows
In September of 2024, ZDI received a vulnerability submission from an anonymous researcher affecting npm CLI that revealed a fundamental design issue in Node.js. This blog details how it continues to expose applications to local privilege escalation (LPE) attacks on Windows systems, including the Discord desktop app (CVE-2026-0776 0-Day), which remains unpatched and vulnerable. The issue is straightforward: when Node.js resolves modules, the runtime searches for packages in C:\node_modules as…
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