cve-2023-23920
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-23 00:00
Modified
2025-03-17 18:31
EPSS score ?
0.14% (0.30697)
Summary
An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in Node.js. <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, and <14.21.3 that could allow an attacker to search and potentially load ICU data when running with elevated privileges.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a https://github.com/nodejs/node Version: Fixed in 19.6.1, 18.14.1, 16.19.1, 14.21.3
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