CVE-2023-23918

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Oct 24, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-863

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 23, 2023
Last modified: Oct 24, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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