When an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate() API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as the process terminates when accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code. The current context of the users will be gone, and that will cause a DoS scenario. This vulnerability affects all active Node.js versions v16, v18, and, v20.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5589-1 nodejs security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-34969 When an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate() API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as the process terminates when accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code. The current context of the users will be gone, and that will cause a DoS scenario. This vulnerability affects all active Node.js versions v16, v18, and, v20.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6735-1 Node.js vulnerabilities
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History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0002}

epss

{'score': 0.00021}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-30T22:24:56.773Z

Reserved: 2023-04-13T01:00:12.086Z

Link: CVE-2023-30588

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-28T20:15:07.437

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:00:28.440

Link: CVE-2023-30588

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-30588 - Bugzilla

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