CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-32559

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-08-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-269

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 configurations

• nodejs node.js (>= 16.0.0 <= 16.20.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 18.0.0 <= 18.17.0) • nodejs node.js (>= 20.0.0 <= 20.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References