CVE-2023-30581

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 1.05 % · percentile 64 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-11-22
Updated: 2025-11-03
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

Description

The use of __proto__ in process.mainModule.__proto__.require() can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: v16, v18 and, v20. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-862

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-34962
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-30581

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0119 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 16.0.0 < 16.20.1
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 18.0.0 < 18.16.1
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 20.0.0 < 20.3.1

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