CVE-2023-38552

Published: 18 October 2023

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
nodejs Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Needs triage
	noble	Needs triage
	trusty	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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