🛡️ CVE-2023-38552 on Debian — nodejs

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-38552 as tracked by Debian, for the package nodejs. The fix is available in version 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38552 is classified as CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. Data is trusted without confirming it really came from the claimed source and was not altered.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38552 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nodejs (fixed in 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 October 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2023-38552 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-10-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nodejs — 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1

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