CVE-2023-30590

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

28/11/2023

Last modified:

04/11/2025

Description

The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling setPrivateKey(). However, the documentation says this API call: "Generates private and public Diffie-Hellman key values".<br /> <br /> The documented behavior is very different from the actual behavior, and this difference could easily lead to security issues in applications that use these APIs as the DiffieHellman may be used as the basis for application-level security, implications are consequently broad.

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::::::::	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-2023-30590

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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