CVE-2023-38552: 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.
Overview
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2023-Oct
- Released
- 2023-10-23
- EPSS Score
- 0.40% (percentile: 60.5%)
FAQ
Is Azure Linux the only Microsoft product that includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability?
One of the main benefits to our customers who choose to use the Azure Linux distro is the commitment to keep it up to date with the most recent and most secure versions of the open source libraries with which the distro is composed. Microsoft is committed to transparency in this work which is why we began publishing CSAF/VEX in October 2025. See this blog post for more information. If impact to additional products is identified, we will update the CVE to reflect this.
Affected Products (1)
Other
Revision History
- 2023-10-23: Information published.