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.
Published: 2023-10-18
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5589-1 nodejs security update
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0000

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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00137}

epss

{'score': 0.0014}


Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Fedoraproject Fedora
Nodejs Node.js
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:49:14.670Z

Reserved: 2023-07-20T01:00:12.444Z

Link: CVE-2023-38552

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T17:46:56.500Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-18T04:15:11.200

Modified: 2025-11-03T22:16:24.850

Link: CVE-2023-38552

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-38552 - Bugzilla

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