fkie_cve-2023-23918
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-02-23 20:15
Modified
2024-11-21 07:47
Severity ?
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.
References
Impacted products
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