CVE-2023-38552

CWE-345CWE-3549 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Nodejs NodeNodejs Node.jsFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateJul 15

Description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5nodejs/node4.0 — 4.*+16
▶Alpinenodejs< 18.18.2-r0+6
▶Debiannodejs< 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1+2
▶NVDnodejs/node.js18.0.0 — 18.18.1+1

Also affects: Fedora 37, 38, 39

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-x39v-frq9-5hh8: When the Node↗2023-10-18
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OSV
CVE-2023-38552: When the Node↗2023-10-18
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CVEList
CVE-2023-38552: When the Node↗2023-10-18
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OSV
CVE-2023-38552: When the Node↗2023-10-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Oracle
Oracle Oracle JD Edwards Risk Matrix: E1 Dev Platform Tech - Cloud (Node.js) — CVE-2023-38552↗2024-07-15
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Red Hat
nodejs: integrity checks according to policies can be circumvented↗2023-10-13
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Microsoft
When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementati↗2023-10-10
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Debian
CVE-2023-38552: nodejs - When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a tru...↗2023
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CVE-2023-38552 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | When the Node.js policy feature che | cvebase.io