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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
2 low
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-5741892
  • published 30 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 28 Mar 2023
  • credit David Benjamin
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Introduced: 28 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-0466 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 because the implementation of the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function does not enable certificate policy check, it allows certificates with invalid or incorrect policies to pass the certificate verification.

Note:

Since enabling the policy check could break existing deployments, it was decided to keep the existing behavior of the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function. Applications that require OpenSSL to perform certificate policy check need to use X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() or explicitly enable the policy check by calling X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() with the X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK flag argument.