---
date: '2025-01-21T17:05:27.542Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 18.20.6 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Rafael Gonzaga
---

## 2025-01-21, Version 18.20.6 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

This is a security release.

### Notable Changes

- CVE-2025-23085 - src: fix HTTP2 mem leak on premature close and ERR_PROTO (Medium)
- CVE-2025-23084 - path: fix path traversal in normalize() on Windows (Medium)

Dependency update:

- CVE-2025-22150 - Use of Insufficiently Random Values in undici fetch() (Medium)

### Commits

- \[[`c03ad5ed63`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c03ad5ed63)] - **build**: use rclone instead of aws CLI (Michaël Zasso) [#55617](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/55617)
- \[[`8232463294`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8232463294)] - **build, tools**: drop leading `/` from `r2dir` (Richard Lau) [#53951](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53951)
- \[[`b26bcd3394`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b26bcd3394)] - **build, tools**: copy release assets to staging R2 bucket once built (flakey5) [#51394](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/51394)
- \[[`56df127b7b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/56df127b7b)] - **build,tools**: simplify upload of shasum signatures (Michaël Zasso) [#53892](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53892)
- \[[`a63e9372ed`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a63e9372ed)] - **(CVE-2025-22150)** **deps**: update undici to v5.28.5 (Matteo Collina) [nodejs-private/node-private#657](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/657)
- \[[`da2d177f91`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/da2d177f91)] - **(CVE-2025-23084)** **path**: fix path traversal in normalize() on Windows (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#555](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/555)
- \[[`6cc8d58e6f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6cc8d58e6f)] - **(CVE-2025-23085)** **src**: fix HTTP2 mem leak on premature close and ERR_PROTO (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#650](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/650)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6.pkg \
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-darwin-arm64.tar.gz \
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/node-v18.20.6.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.6/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v18.20.6/api/

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