CVE-2023-30588

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

28/11/2023

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

When an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate() API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as the process terminates when accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code. The current context of the users will be gone, and that will cause a DoS scenario. This vulnerability affects all active Node.js versions v16, v18, and, v20.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js::::::::	16.0.0 (including)	16.20.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js::::::::	18.0.0 (including)	18.16.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js::::::::	20.0.0 (including)	20.3.1 (excluding)

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CVE-2023-30588

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools