Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-32559
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 8.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2023-32559
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.20.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:16.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.16.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.17.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:18.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.5.0