CVE-2023-23919

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 2.21 % · percentile 83 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-02-23
Updated: 2025-04-30
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

Description

A cryptographic vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.2.0, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, <14.21.3 that in some cases did does not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations that may set it. This may lead to false positive errors during subsequent cryptographic operations that happen to be on the same thread. This in turn could be used to cause a denial of service.

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:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	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:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-310

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-28001
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-23919

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-2023-AVI-0886 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Tenable Identity Exposure · 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

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 < 19.2.0

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