CVE-2023-23918 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2023-security-releases/