nodejs — security advisory
The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling setPrivateKey(). However, the documentation says this API call: "Generates private and public Diffie-Hellman key values". The documented behavior is very different from the actual behavior, and this difference could easily lead to security issues in applications that use these APIs as the DiffieHellman may be used as the basis for application-level security, implications are consequently broad.
- 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-2023-30590
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling setPrivateKey(). However, the documentation says this API call: "Generates private and public Diffie-Hellman key values". The documented behavior is very different from the actual behavior, and this difference could easily lead to security issues in applications that use these APIs as the DiffieHellman may be used as the basis for application-level security, implications are consequently broad.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30590
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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