CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-23083
7.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-01-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage.
This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases nodejs.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250228-0008/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-23083-detect-nodejs-vulnerability www.vicarius.io
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-23083-mitigate-nodejs-vulnerability www.vicarius.io