UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38552
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38552
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2023/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38552.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38552
- Upstream
- Published
- 2023-10-18T04:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-18T16:54:35Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38552
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2023-security-releases#integrity-checks-according-to-policies-can-be-circumvented-medium---cve-2023-38552
- https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1c538938ccadfd35fbc699d8e85102736cd5945c
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2094235
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38552
Affected packages
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / nodejs
Package
- Name
- nodejs
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/nodejs@12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6?arch=source&distro=jammy