CVE-2023-32559

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API `process.binding()` can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of `process.binding('spawn_sync')` run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a `policy.json` file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Affected packages (4)

• Alpine/nodejsfrom 0, < 16.20.2-r0
• Bitnami/nodefrom 0, < 16.20.2, >= 17.0.0, < 18.17.1, >= 19.0.0, < 20.5.1
• Bitnami/node-minfrom 0, < 16.20.2, >= 17.0.0, < 18.17.1, >= 19.0.0, < 20.5.1
• Debian/nodejsfrom 0, < 12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u5

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-32559
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32559
• WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1946470
• WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00029.html
• WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32559
• WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0006/