nodejs — security advisory
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.
- Products
- nodejs
- Affected versions
- 18.13.0+dfsg1-1, 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1, 18.19.0+dfsg-1, 18.19.0+dfsg-2, 18.19.0+dfsg-3, 18.19.0+dfsg-4, 18.19.0+dfsg-5
- Fixed versions
- 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1, 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-30588
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30588
nodejs
Fixed versions: 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1
nodejs
Fixed versions: 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1
nodejs
Fixed versions: 18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1
Complete source record
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