Riskcovery

CVE-2023-38552

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2023
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Jul 20, 2023

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Description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
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.*Affected
  • 17.0 to before 17.*Affected
  • 18.0 to before 18.18.2Affected
  • 19.0 to before 19.*Affected
  • 20.0 to before 20.8.1Affected

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