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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-02T10:42:27.095Z
Reserved: 2023-01-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2023-23918
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-02-23T20:15:13.920
Modified: 2023-03-16T16:15:11.720
Link: CVE-2023-23918
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