CVE-2023-32559
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-24 01:23
Modified
2024-10-03 13:38
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
support@hackerone.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1946470Exploit, Third Party Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Node.jsNode.js
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