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Privilege Escalation Affecting node package, versions [14.0.0,14.21.3) [16.0.0,16.19.1) [18.0.0,18.14.1) [19.0.0,19.6.1)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (14th percentile)
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NVD
4.2 medium
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SUSE
7.1 high
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Red Hat
4.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-3329554
  • published 22 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 16 Feb 2023
  • credit Ben Noordhuis
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Introduced: 16 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-23920 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 14.21.3, 16.19.1, 18.14.1, 19.6.1 or higher.

Overview

node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable.