CVE-2023-39331 Path traversal in Node

What is CVE-2023-39331?

CVE-2023-39331 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 18 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A previously disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2023-30584) was patched insufficiently in commit 205f1e6. The new path traversal vulnerability arises because the implementation does not protect itself against the application overwriting built-in utility functions with user-defined implementations.

Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-39331?

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-2023-39331?

Upgrade node to 20.8.1 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-39331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-39331 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
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Also known as BIT-node-2023-39331, BIT-node-min-2023-39331, GHSA-7xrv-q25v-f95m.