high7.5
CVE-2023-32559
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x.
Impact
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API `process.binding()` can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of `process.binding('spawn_sync')` run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a `policy.json` file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Nodejs | Node.Js | from 16.0.0 through 16.20.1 from 18.0.0 through 18.17.0 from 20.0.0 through 20.5.0 |