CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-38552

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-10-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
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:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-345

Description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Affected configurations

• nodejs node.js (>= 18.0.0 <= 18.18.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 20.1.0 <= 20.8.0) • fedoraproject fedora 37 • fedoraproject fedora 38 • fedoraproject fedora 39

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity weakness

References