CVE-2023-38552

HIGH

7.5

CVSS Score

Published: October 18, 2023 at 03:55 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:10 AM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraNode.js

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Severity

HIGH7.5

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1%

SSVC

No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Fedora · Fedora Projectrpm

95%

37 38 39

Node.js · Node.js

95%

10.0 ≤ v < 10.*11.0 ≤ v < 11.*12.0 ≤ v < 12.*13.0 ≤ v < 13.*14.0 ≤ v < 14.*15.0 ≤ v < 15.*16.0 ≤ v < 16.*17.0 ≤ v < 17.*18.0 ≤ v < 18.18.218.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 18.18.119.0 ≤ v < 19.*20.0 ≤ v < 20.8.120.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 20.8.04.0 ≤ v < 4.*5.0 ≤ v < 5.*6.0 ≤ v < 6.*7.0 ≤ v < 7.*8.0 ≤ v < 8.*9.0 ≤ v < 9.*10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 17.0 18.0 19.0 20.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0

Affected range stops below 10.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 11.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 12.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 13.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 14.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 15.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 16.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 17.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 18.18.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 19.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 20.8.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 4.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 5.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 6.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 7.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 8.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 9.*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.