CVE-2023-32559 (GCVE-0-2023-32559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-24 01:23
Modified
2025-11-04 16:10
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Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NodeJS | Node |
Version: 4.0 ≤ Version: 5.0 ≤ Version: 6.0 ≤ Version: 7.0 ≤ Version: 8.0 ≤ Version: 9.0 ≤ Version: 10.0 ≤ Version: 11.0 ≤ Version: 12.0 ≤ Version: 13.0 ≤ Version: 14.0 ≤ Version: 15.0 ≤ Version: 16.0 ≤ Version: 17.0 ≤ Version: 18.0 ≤ Version: 19.0 ≤ Version: 20.0 ≤ |
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