CVE-2023-23919

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Feb 23, 2023
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: Jan 19, 2023

Description

A cryptographic vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.2.0, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, <14.21.3 that in some cases did does not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations that may set it. This may lead to false positive errors during subsequent cryptographic operations that happen to be on the same thread. This in turn could be used to cause a denial of service.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues - Generic (CWE-310)

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 19.2.0Affected

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 19.2.0Affected

References

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