github - ghsa-33p5-m25c-cp6w

ghsa-33p5-m25c-cp6w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-02-23 21:30

Modified

2025-03-12 18:32

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.

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   id: "GHSA-33p5-m25c-cp6w",
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   published: "2023-02-23T21:30:16Z",
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cve-2023-23918

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-02-23 00:00

Modified

2025-03-12 17:47

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2023-security-releases/
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230316-0008/

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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