CVE-2023-38552
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.40%Published: 10/18/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2023-38552DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38552
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/nodejsfrom 0, < 18.18.2-r0
- Bitnami/nodefrom 0, < 18.18.2, >= 19.0.0, < 20.8.1
- Bitnami/node-minfrom 0, < 18.18.2, >= 19.0.0, < 20.8.1
- Debian/nodejsfrom 0, < 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-38552
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38552
- WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/2094235
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3N4NJ7FR4X4FPZUGNTQAPSTVB2HB2Y4A/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/E72T67UPDRXHIDLO3OROR25YAMN4GGW5/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FNA62Q767CFAFHBCDKYNPBMZWB7TWYVU/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HT7T2R4MQKLIF4ODV4BDLPARWFPCJ5CZ/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LKYHSZQFDNR7RSA7LHVLLIAQMVYCUGBG/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X6QXN4ORIVF6XBW4WWFE7VNPVC74S45Y/
- WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38552
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0013/
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/