CVE-2023-23920

State: Published
Severity: 4.2 Medium
Published: Feb 23, 2023
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: Jan 19, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)

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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