CVE-2024-36138CriticalMicrosoft CVSS 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-36138

Published
August 7, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • azl3 nodejs 20.14.0-8 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 nodejs18 18.20.3-6
  • cbl2 nodejs18 18.20.3-6 on CBL-Mariner 2.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-36138

EchelonGraph score
8.1 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

Bypass incomplete fix of CVE-2024-27980, that arises from improper handling of batch files with all possible extensions on Windows via child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync. A malicious command line argument can inject arbitrary commands and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.

Published by HackerOne, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-36138, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (1)