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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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38552
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 08:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2023-38552
Complete source record
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"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0013/",
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