CVE-2023-38552

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Publication date:

18/10/2023

Last modified:

03/11/2025

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&#39;s policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.<br /> Impacts:<br /> This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x.<br /> Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js::::::::	18.0.0 (including)	18.18.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js::::::::	20.1.0 (including)	20.8.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:::::::*

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CVE-2023-38552

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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