Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 23, 2023· Updated May 8, 2025
CVE-2023-23918
CVE-2023-23918
Description
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.
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Affected products
50- osv-coords48 versionspkg:bitnami/nodepkg:bitnami/node-minpkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejspkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-docspkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-full-i18npkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-nodemonpkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-packagingpkg:rpm/almalinux/nodejs-packaging-bundlerpkg:rpm/almalinux/npmpkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs12&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs14&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs16&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs18&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs18&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/nodejs19&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs12&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs14&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs16&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs18&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs18&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2015%20SP4
>= 14.0.0, < 14.21.3+ 47 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 14.0.0, < 14.21.3
- (no CPE)range: >= 14.0.0, < 14.21.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1:16.19.1-1.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 1:16.19.1-1.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 1:16.19.1-1.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 1:16.19.1-1.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 1:16.19.1-1.el9_2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.20-3.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 25-1.module_el8.5.0+2605+45d748af
- (no CPE)range: < 2021.06-4.module_el8.7.0+3343+ea2b7901
- (no CPE)range: < 1:8.19.3-1.16.19.1.1.module_el8.7.0+3496+a59a3324
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150400.3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 18.14.2-150400.9.6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 18.14.2-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 19.7.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.22.12-150200.4.50.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-6.40.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14.21.3-150200.15.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-8.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150400.3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 16.19.1-150300.7.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 18.14.2-8.6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 18.14.2-150400.9.6.2
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