CVE-2023-38552 Security feature bypass in Node

What is CVE-2023-38552?

CVE-2023-38552 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 Oct 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Weakness: CWE-345

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38552?

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

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38552?

Upgrade node to a fixed version for your release line: 18.18.2 or 20.8.1.

Is CVE-2023-38552 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38552 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2023-38552, AZL-31614, BELL-CVE-2023-38552, BIT-node-2023-38552, BIT-node-min-2023-38552, CLEANSTART-2026-MK88836 and 6 more.