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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-23918

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api

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Assigning organization
hackerone

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NodeJS Node

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.0 to < 4.*affected
  • 5.0 to < 5.*affected
  • 6.0 to < 6.*affected
  • 7.0 to < 7.*affected
  • 8.0 to < 8.*affected
  • 9.0 to < 9.*affected
  • 10.0 to < 10.*affected
  • 11.0 to < 11.*affected
  • 12.0 to < 12.*affected
  • 13.0 to < 13.*affected
  • 14.0 to < 14.21.3affected
  • 15.0 to < 15.*affected
  • 16.0 to < 16.19.1affected
  • 17.0 to < 17.*affected
  • 18.0 to < 18.14.1affected
  • 19.0 to < 19.6.1affected

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