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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-32559): Node.js vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-32559): Node.js vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/24/2023
Created
07/02/2024
Added
07/01/2024
Modified
07/01/2024

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API `process.binding()` can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of `process.binding('spawn_sync')` run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a `policy.json` file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnode108
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnode72
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nodejs

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