CVE-2023-23918

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.

Affected packages (5)

• Alpine/nodejsfrom 0, < 14.21.3-r0
• Bitnami/node>= 14.0.0, < 14.21.3, >= 16.0.0, < 16.19.1, >= 18.0.0, < 18.14.1, >= 19.0.0, < 19.6.1
• Bitnami/node-min>= 14.0.0, < 14.21.3, >= 16.0.0, < 16.19.1, >= 18.0.0, < 18.14.1, >= 19.0.0, < 19.6.1
• Debian/nodejsfrom 0, < 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1
• Debian/nodejsfrom 0, < 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1

CVSS scores

References (5)

• ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-23918
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-23918
• WEBhttps://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2023-security-releases/
• WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23918
• WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230316-0008/