UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23918

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23918

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2023/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23918.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23918

Related

CVE-2023-23918

Published

2023-02-23T20:15:00Z

Modified

2023-02-23T20:15:00Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / nodejs

Package

Name: nodejs
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nodejs@18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4?arch=src?distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4

Affected versions

18.*

18.13.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "libnode108": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4",
            "libnode108-dbgsym": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4",
            "nodejs": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4",
            "libnode-dev": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4",
            "nodejs-doc": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4",
            "nodejs-dbgsym": "18.19.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4"
        }
    ]
}