🛡️ CVE-2023-32006
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-693 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The use of `module.constructor.createRequire()` can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x, and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-693
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-15
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-05-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora
node
node-min
node.js 20.0.0 20.5.0

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