vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-38552: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
10/18/2023
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.
Impacts:
This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x.
Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Solution(s)

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejsalpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs-current
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