CVE-2023-32559 Affecting nodejs package, versions <18.13.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.8% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2310-NODEJS-5973309
  • published3 Jun 2024
  • disclosed24 Aug 2023

Introduced: 24 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-32559  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:23.10 nodejs to version 18.13.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:23.10 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 Base Scores

version 3.1