CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-23918

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-02-23 Modified 2026-10-24 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-02-23
Last modified
2026-10-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863

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 configurations

• nodejs node.js (>= 14.0.0 <= 14.14.0) • nodejs node.js (>= 14.0.0 < 14.21.3) • nodejs node.js (>= 16.0.0 <= 16.12.0) • nodejs node.js (>= 16.0.0 < 16.19.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 18.0.0 <= 18.11.0) • nodejs node.js (>= 18.0.0 < 18.14.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 19.0.0 < 19.6.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References