9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
39.2%
The use of Module._load()
can bypass the policy mechanism and require
modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module. This
vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in
all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the
time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.
github.com/nodejs/node/commit/15bced0bde93f24115b779a309d517845c87e17a (v18.x)
github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b68e5e798138be0041ba9ace72d8d45e63c068a1 (main)
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-32002
nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2023-security-releases#permissions-policies-can-be-bypassed-via-module_load-highcve-2023-32002
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32002
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32002
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6822-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32002