Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs:18/nodejs-docs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-NODEJS-9495837
  • published21 Mar 2025
  • disclosed9 Aug 2023

Introduced: 9 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-32002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-807  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs:18/nodejs-docs package and not the nodejs:18/nodejs-docs package as distributed by RHEL.

The use of Module._load() can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module.

This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x.

Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.