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Red Hat: CVE-2023-38552: integrity checks according to policies can be circumvented (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-38552: integrity checks according to policies can be circumvented (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/18/2023
Created
11/01/2023
Added
11/01/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

References

  • CVE-2023-38552
  • RHSA-2023:5849
  • RHSA-2023:5869
  • RHSA-2023:7205

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