CVE-2023-23918

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 2.02 % · percentile 81 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-02-23
Updated: 2025-05-08
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-863

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-28000
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-23918

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0170 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-1051 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0145 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0027 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Juniper Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0504 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0337 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0325 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Oracle · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 14.0.0 ≤ 14.14.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 14.0.0 < 14.21.3
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 16.0.0 ≤ 16.12.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 16.0.0 < 16.19.1
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 18.0.0 ≤ 18.11.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 18.0.0 < 18.14.1
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 19.0.0 < 19.6.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
NodeJS · Node	affected 4.0 < 4.* ; affected 5.0 < 5.* ; affected 6.0 < 6.* ; affected 7.0 < 7.* ; affected 8.0 < 8.* ; affected 9.0 < 9.*

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD