CVE-2023-23919 Denial of service in Node

What is CVE-2023-23919?

CVE-2023-23919 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 23 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A cryptographic vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.2.0, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, <14.21.3 that in some cases did does not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations that may set it. This may lead to false positive errors during subsequent cryptographic operations that happen to be on the same thread. This in turn could be used to cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23919?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including node and node-min. It affects 1 product.

Products include Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2023-23919?

Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 14.21.3, 16.19.1, 18.14.1 or 19.2.0.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-23919 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-23919 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Nodejs Node.js

• CVE-2023-32002 Security feature bypass in Node Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6303 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-15896 Security feature bypass in Node.js Critical 9.1
• CVE-2018-7160 Server-side request forgery in Node.js High 8.8
• CVE-2018-12120 Misconfiguration in Node.js High 8.1

All Nodejs Node.js vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2023-23919, AZL-13684, BIT-node-2023-23919, BIT-node-min-2023-23919, CLEANSTART-2026-BC88779, CLEANSTART-2026-SS08335 and 2 more.