CVE-2023-23920

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.2
EPSS: EPSS 0.45 % · percentile 39 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-02-23
Updated: 2025-04-30
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in Node.js. <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, and <14.21.3 that could allow an attacker to search and potentially load ICU data when running with elevated privileges.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-426

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-28002
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-23920

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-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 < 19.6.1
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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