CVE-2023-23918

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Feb 23, 2023
Updated: May 8, 2025
Reserved: Jan 19, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NodeNodeJS	4.0 to before 4.Affected 5.0 to before 5.Affected 6.0 to before 6.Affected 7.0 to before 7.Affected 8.0 to before 8.Affected 9.0 to before 9.Affected 10.0 to before 10.Affected 11.0 to before 11.Affected 12.0 to before 12.Affected 13.0 to before 13.Affected 14.0 to before 14.21.3Affected 15.0 to before 15.Affected 16.0 to before 16.19.1Affected 17.0 to before 17.Affected 18.0 to before 18.14.1Affected 19.0 to before 19.6.1Affected

Product

Versions

NodeNodeJS

4.0 to before 4.*Affected
5.0 to before 5.*Affected
6.0 to before 6.*Affected
7.0 to before 7.*Affected
8.0 to before 8.*Affected
9.0 to before 9.*Affected
10.0 to before 10.*Affected
11.0 to before 11.*Affected
12.0 to before 12.*Affected
13.0 to before 13.*Affected
14.0 to before 14.21.3Affected
15.0 to before 15.*Affected
16.0 to before 16.19.1Affected
17.0 to before 17.*Affected
18.0 to before 18.14.1Affected
19.0 to before 19.6.1Affected

References

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