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Vulnerability CVE-2023-23918
Published: 2023-02-23
| Description: |
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy. |
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https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2023-security-releases/
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