vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-38552: Important priority package update for nodejs

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
2023-10-13
Added
2025-02-17
Modified
2025-02-17

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.
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 node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.

Solution(s)

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-nodejs-npmamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-v8-10-2-devel
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