high7.5
CVE-2023-23918
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (h…
Impact
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Nodejs | Node.Js | from 14.0.0 through 14.14.0 from 14.0.0 before 14.21.3 from 16.0.0 through 16.12.0 from 16.0.0 before 16.19.1 from 18.0.0 through 18.11.0 from 18.0.0 before 18.14.1 |