| Name | CVE-2023-32559 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5589-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1050739 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| nodejs (PTS) | jessie | 0.10.29~dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 4.8.2~dfsg-1 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 18.13.0+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm (security) | 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 18.20.1+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nodejs | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| nodejs | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| nodejs | source | buster | (not affected) | |||
| nodejs | source | bookworm | 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1 | DSA-5589-1 | ||
| nodejs | source | (unstable) | 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1 | 1050739 |
[bullseye] - nodejs <ignored> (Only affects experimental policy manifests)
[buster] - nodejs <not-affected> (v10.x doesn't support policy manifests)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2023-security-releases#permissions-policies-can-be-bypassed-via-processbinding-mediumcve-2023-32559
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d4570fae358693b8f7fec05294b9bb92a966226d (v18.x)
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4aa0eff787c14f14a239cf2f44bf751a0151e3eb (main)