CVE-2023-32559
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-24 01:23
Modified
2025-02-13 16:54
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.09419)
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Node.js Node.js Version: 20.5.0    20.5.0
Version: 18.17.0    18.17.0
Version: 16.20.1    16.20.1
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