CVE-2023-32559

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Aug 24, 2023
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: May 10, 2023

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API `process.binding()` can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of `process.binding('spawn_sync')` run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a `policy.json` file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

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.Affected 15.0 to before 15.Affected 16.0 to before 16.20.2Affected 17.0 to before 17.Affected 18.0 to before 18.17.1Affected 19.0 to before 19.Affected 20.0 to before 20.5.1Affected

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.*Affected
15.0 to before 15.*Affected
16.0 to before 16.20.2Affected
17.0 to before 17.*Affected
18.0 to before 18.17.1Affected
19.0 to before 19.*Affected
20.0 to before 20.5.1Affected

References

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