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CVE-2023-38552

CVSS v3.1 7.5 (High)
75% Progress
EPSS 0.69 % (80th)
0.69% Progress
Affected Products 2
Advisories 25
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-345
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
HackerOne
Published Date
2023-10-18 04:15:11
(11 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-02-16 17:11:52
(7 months ago)

Affected Products

Fedoraproject

Nodejs

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Nodejs Node.js from 18.0.0 version and 18.18.1 and prior versions cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js >= 18.0.0 <= 18.18.1
  Nodejs Node.js from 20.1.0 version and 20.8.0 and prior versions cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js >= 20.1.0 <= 20.8.0

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Fedoraproject Fedora 37 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37
  Fedoraproject Fedora 38 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38
  Fedoraproject Fedora 39 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39