---
date: '2025-01-21T17:05:40.198Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 20.18.2 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Rafael Gonzaga
---

## 2025-01-21, Version 20.18.2 'Iron' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

This is a security release.

### Notable Changes

- CVE-2025-23083 - throw on InternalWorker use when permission model is enabled (High)
- 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

- \[[`df8b9f2c3e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df8b9f2c3e)] - **(CVE-2025-22150)** **deps**: update undici to v6.21.1 (Matteo Collina) [nodejs-private/node-private#663](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/663)
- \[[`42d5821873`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/42d5821873)] - **(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)
- \[[`8187a4b9bb`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8187a4b9bb)] - **src**: fix HTTP2 mem leak on premature close and ERR_PROTO (RafaelGSS)
- \[[`389f239a28`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/389f239a28)] - **(CVE-2025-23083)** **src,loader,permission**: throw on InternalWorker use (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#652](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/652)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-x64.msi \
Windows ARM 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-arm64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/win-x64/node.exe \
Windows ARM 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/win-arm64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2.pkg \
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-darwin-arm64.tar.gz \
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/node-v20.18.2.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.18.2/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v20.18.2/api/

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