Access Restriction Bypass Affecting node package, versions [16.0.0,16.20.2)[18.0.0,18.17.1)[20.0.0,20.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-5848030
  • published22 Aug 2023
  • disclosed9 Aug 2023
  • creditmattaustin

Introduced: 9 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-32002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 16.20.2, 18.17.1, 20.5.1 or higher.

Overview

node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass via the Module._load which can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1