7.5

CVE-2023-38552: fedoraproject fedora

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2023-38552UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38552DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38552
Published 18-10-2023Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-38552 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.24%
0%100%
Low · +0.13 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 15 · Related 12
DSA-5589-1MGASA-2023-0299OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13337-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13340-1RHSA-2023:5849RHSA-2023:5869

Timeline

  1. 18-10-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

69%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.13 pp

From 1.11% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.24%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard2 products
  • nodejs-16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • nodejs-18< 18.18.2-r0
Nodejs2 products
  • node≥ 4.0, < 4.* | ≥ 5.0, < 5.* | ≥ 6.0, < 6.* | ≥ 7.0, < 7.* | ≥ 8.0, < 8.* | ≥ 9.0, < 9.* | ≥ 10.0, < 10.* | ≥ 11.0, < 11.* | ≥ 12.0, < 12.* | ≥ 13.0, < 13.* | ≥ 14.0, < 14.* | ≥ 15.0, < 15.* | ≥ 16.0, < 16.* | ≥ 17.0, < 17.* | ≥ 18.0, < 18.18.2 | ≥ 19.0, < 19.* | ≥ 20.0, < 20.8.1
  • node.js≥ 18.0.0, ≤ 18.18.1 | ≥ 20.1.0, ≤ 20.8.0
Wolfi2 products
  • nodejs-16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • nodejs-18< 18.18.2-r0
Alpine1 product
  • nodejs< 18.18.2-r0
Debian1 product
  • nodejs< 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1 | < 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1
Fedoraproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • nodejsAll versions (No fix recorded)

7 vendors · 10 products

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