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Improper Certificate Validation Affecting node package, versions [16.0.0,16.20.1) [18.0.0,18.16.1) [20.0.0,20.3.1)

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.17% (53rd percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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SUSE
5.9 medium
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-5741888
  • published 30 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 28 Mar 2023
  • credit David Benjamin
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Introduced: 28 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-0465 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-295 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 16.20.1, 18.16.1, 20.3.1 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation due to invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate. A malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies to circumvent policy checking on the certificate altogether.

Note: Exploiting this vulnerability is possible on applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates.