DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32559

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32559
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32559.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-32559
Upstream
Published
2023-08-24T02:15:09Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:28:39.329539Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nodejs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u5

Affected versions

12.*

12.21.0~dfsg-5
12.22.4~dfsg-1
12.22.5~dfsg-1
12.22.5~dfsg-2~11u1
12.22.5~dfsg-2
12.22.5~dfsg-3
12.22.5~dfsg-4
12.22.5~dfsg-5
12.22.5~dfsg-6
12.22.5~dfsg-7
12.22.7~dfsg-1
12.22.7~dfsg-2
12.22.9~dfsg-1
12.22.10~dfsg-1
12.22.10~dfsg-2
12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u1
12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u2
12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u3
12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nodejs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1

Affected versions

18.*

18.13.0+dfsg1-1
18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1
18.19.0+dfsg-1
18.19.0+dfsg-2
18.19.0+dfsg-3
18.19.0+dfsg-4
18.19.0+dfsg-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nodejs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nodejs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}