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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-32559

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()

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
hackerone

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.

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.*affected
  • 15.0 to < 15.*affected
  • 16.0 to < 16.20.2affected
  • 17.0 to < 17.*affected
  • 18.0 to < 18.17.1affected
  • 19.0 to < 19.*affected
  • 20.0 to < 20.5.1affected

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