Medium
Security advisory
An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in Node.js. <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, and <14.21.3 that could allow an attacker to search and potentially load ICU data when running with elevated privileges.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-23920
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 02:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in Node.js. <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, and <14.21.3 that could allow an attacker to search and potentially load ICU data when running with elevated privileges.
osv:CVE-2023-23920
Complete source record
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