CVE-2025-23083

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jan 22, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 10, 2025

Description

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage.

This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.7 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	hackerone

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

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.Affected 17.0 to before 17.Affected 19.0 to before 19.Affected 20.0 to before 20.18.2Affected 21.0 to before 21.Affected 22.0 to before 22.13.1Affected 23.0 to before 23.6.1Affected

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.*Affected
15.0 to before 15.*Affected
16.0 to before 16.*Affected
17.0 to before 17.*Affected
19.0 to before 19.*Affected
20.0 to before 20.18.2Affected
21.0 to before 21.*Affected
22.0 to before 22.13.1Affected
23.0 to before 23.6.1Affected

References

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