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v25.3.0

nodejs/nodev25.3.0Jan 13, 2026by marco-ippolito

AI Summary

This is a security release addressing multiple CVEs, including improvements to TLSSocket error handling, permission model checks, async_hooks stack overflow handling, and unsafe buffer creation refactoring.

Key Highlights

  • CVE-2025-59465: Added TLSSocket default error handler
  • CVE-2025-55130: Require full read and write to symlink APIs
  • CVE-2025-55131: Refactor unsafe buffer creation
  • CVE-2026-21637: Route callback exceptions through error handlers

New Features

  • lib: add TLSSocket default error handler (CVE-2025-59465)
  • lib,permission: require full read and write to symlink APIs (CVE-2025-55130)
  • src,lib: refactor unsafe buffer creation (CVE-2025-55131)
  • src: rethrow stack overflow exceptions in async_hooks (CVE-2025-59466)
  • tls: route callback exceptions through error handlers (CVE-2026-21637)

Full Release Notes

This is a security release.

### Notable Changes

lib:

* (CVE-2025-59465) add TLSSocket default error handler (RafaelGSS) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/750>
  permission:
* (CVE-2026-21636) add network check on pipe\_wrap connect (RafaelGSS) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/784>
* (CVE-2025-55130) require full read and write to symlink APIs (RafaelGSS) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/760>
* (CVE-2025-55132) disable futimes when permission model is enabled (RafaelGSS) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/748>
  src:
* (CVE-2025-59466) rethrow stack overflow exceptions in async\_hooks (Matteo Collina) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/773>
  src,lib:
* (CVE-2025-55131) refactor unsafe buffer creation to remove zero-fill toggle (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/759>
  tls:
* (CVE-2026-21637) route callback exceptions through error handlers (Matteo Collina) <https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/790>

### Commits

* \[[`a6a74b89a7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a6a74b89a7)] - **deps**: update c-ares to v1.34.6 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#60997](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/60997)
* \[[`5100614e26`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5100614e26)] - **deps**: update undici to 7.18.2 (Node.js GitHub Bot) [#61283](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61283)
* \[[`f0a8916887`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f0a8916887)] - **(CVE-2025-59465)** **lib**: add TLSSocket default error handler (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#750](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/750)
* \[[`b4b887c5f7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b4b887c5f7)] - **(CVE-2025-55132)** **lib**: disable futimes when permission model is enabled (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#748](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/748)
* \[[`26be208039`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/26be208039)] - **(CVE-2025-55130)** **lib,permission**: require full read and write to symlink APIs (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#760](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/760)
* \[[`bdf5873d44`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bdf5873d44)] - **(CVE-2026-21636)** **permission**: add network check on pipe\_wrap connect (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#784](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/784)
* \[[`0578e3e921`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0578e3e921)] - **(CVE-2025-59466)** **src**: rethrow stack overflow exceptions in async\_hooks (Matteo Collina) [nodejs-private/node-private#773](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/773)
* \[[`4d6b55a6d1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4d6b55a6d1)] - **(CVE-2025-55131)** **src,lib**: refactor unsafe buffer creation to remove zero-fill toggle (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) [nodejs-private/node-private#759](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/759)
* \[[`c357a39e14`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c357a39e14)] - **(CVE-2026-21637)** **tls**: route callback exceptions through error handlers (Matteo Collina) [nodejs-private/node-private#790](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/790)