UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38552
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Summary:
Details: 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: 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
Package
Name: nodejs
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6+esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/jammy
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
