CVE-2023-30590 Other in Node

What is CVE-2023-30590?

CVE-2023-30590 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 28 Nov 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling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".

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-30590?

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-2023-30590?

Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 16.20.1, 18.16.1 or 20.3.1.

Is CVE-2023-30590 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-30590 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-node-2023-30590, BIT-node-min-2023-30590, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30590, GHSA-v63h-9gvh-2x49, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-30590.