msrc_cve-2023-32559
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2023-08-01 00:00
Modified
2023-08-24 00:00
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.

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Additional Resources
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