CVE-2023-32559 Affecting nodejs18-devel package, versions <18.17.1-150400.9.12.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-NODEJS18DEVEL-5849771
  • published23 Aug 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-32559  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 nodejs18-devel to version 18.17.1-150400.9.12.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs18-devel package and not the nodejs18-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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(&#39;spawn_sync&#39;) 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1