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CVE-2023-32559

Published: 8/24/2023 Last updated: 11/4/2025 Reserved: 5/10/2023

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.

CNA assigner: hackerone (36234546-b8fa-4601-9d6f-f4e334aa8ea1) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 7.5 High CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-npm

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
Node NodeJS < 157d468e34fdd3cb1ddc07c2be32fb3b02826b02

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