CVE-2023-23918

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.

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.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Security Fix(es):

This affects versions of the package http-cache-semantics before 4.1.1. The issue can be exploited via malicious request header values sent to a server, when that server reads the cache policy from the request using this library.

(CVE-2022-25881)

A OS Command Injection vulnerability exists in Node.js versions <14.20.0, <16.20.0, <18.5.0 due to an insufficient IsAllowedHost check that can easily be bypassed because IsIPAddress does not properly check if an IP address is invalid before making DBS requests allowing rebinding attacks.(CVE-2022-32212)

The llhttp parser <v14.20.1, <v16.17.1 and <v18.9.1 in the http module in Node.js does not correctly parse and validate Transfer-Encoding headers and can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS).(CVE-2022-32213)

The llhttp parser <v14.20.1, <v16.17.1 and <v18.9.1 in the http module in Node.js does not strictly use the CRLF sequence to delimit HTTP requests. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS).(CVE-2022-32214)

The llhttp parser <v14.20.1, <v16.17.1 and <v18.9.1 in the http module in Node.js does not correctly handle multi-line Transfer-Encoding headers. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS).(CVE-2022-32215)

The llhttp parser in the http module in Node v18.7.0 does not correctly handle header fields that are not terminated with CLRF. This may result in HTTP Request Smuggling.(CVE-2022-35256)

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.(CVE-2023-23918)

An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in Node.js. <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, and <14.21.3 that could allow an attacker to search and potentially load ICU data when running with elevated privileges.(CVE-2023-23920)

The use of proto in process.mainModule.proto.require() can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition.

References: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases(CVE-2023-30581)

The llhttp parser in the http module in Node v20.2.0 does not strictly use the CRLF sequence to delimit HTTP requests. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS).

The CR character (without LF) is sufficient to delimit HTTP header fields in the llhttp parser. According to RFC7230 section 3, only the CRLF sequence should delimit each header-field. This impacts all Node.js active versions: v16, v18, and, v20 (CVE-2023-30589)

The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet.

References: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases(CVE-2023-30590)

The use of Module._load() 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.(CVE-2023-32002)

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…

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (18.14.2).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

• Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)

• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.19.1).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (18.14.2).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (14.21.3).

Security Fix(es):

• decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-38900)
• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)
• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (18.14.2).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.19.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

Security Fix(es):

• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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.

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.

The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

CVE-2023-23918: Node.js Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (High) CVE-2023-23920: Node.js insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (Low) More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in February 2023 Security Releases blog post.

This security release includes OpenSSL security updates as outlined in the recent OpenSSL security advisory.

This security release also includes an npm update for Node.js 14 to address a number of CVEs which either do not affect Node.js or are low severity in the context of Node.js. You can get more details for the individual CVEs in nodejs-dependency-vuln-assessments.

These are all security issues fixed in the corepack18-18.14.2-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

These are all security issues fixed in the corepack19-19.7.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.19.1).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

• Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)

• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (18.14.2).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (14.21.3).

Security Fix(es):

• decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-38900)

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)

• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.19.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

Security Fix(es):

• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This update for nodejs14 fixes the following issues:

Update to 14.21.3:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).

This update for nodejs16 fixes the following issues:

Update to LTS version 16.19.1:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
• CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
• CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

Bug fixes:

• Workaround for failing openssl-nodejs test (bsc#1205568).

This update for nodejs16 fixes the following issues:

Update to LTS version 16.19.1:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
• CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
• CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

Bug fixes:

• Workaround for failing openssl-nodejs test (bsc#1205568).

This update for nodejs16 fixes the following issues:

Update to LTS version 16.19.1:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
• CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
• CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

Bug fixes:

• Workaround for failing openssl-nodejs test (bsc#1205568).

This update for nodejs14 fixes the following issues:

Update to 14.21.3:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).

This update for nodejs18 fixes the following issues:

Update to NodeJS 18.14.2 LTS:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
• CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
• CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

This update for nodejs18 fixes the following issues:

Update to NodeJS 18.14.2 LTS:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies that could have been bypassed via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-23919: Fixed OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (bsc#1208483).
• CVE-2023-23920: Fixed insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment (bsc#1208487).
• CVE-2023-23936: Fixed protection against CRLF injection in host headers inside fetch API (bsc#1208485).
• CVE-2023-24807: Fixed possible Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods (bsc#1208413).

This update for nodejs12 fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies bypass via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
• CVE-2023-32002: Fixed permissions policies bypass via Module._load (bsc#1214150).
• CVE-2023-32006: Fixed permissions policies impersonation using module.constructor.createRequire() (bsc#1214156).
• CVE-2023-32559: Fixed permissions policies bypass via process.binding (bsc#1214154).
• CVE-2023-30581: Fixed mainModule.proto bypass (bsc#1212574).
• CVE-2023-30590: Fixed missing DiffieHellman key generation (bsc#1212583).
• CVE-2023-30589: Fixed HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (bsc#1212582).