vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-23919: Medium priority package update for nodejs

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 16, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-docsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18namazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-libsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-nodejs-libs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-npmamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-v8-devel
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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