CVE-2023-39331
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2023-10-18
- Fixed in20.8.1
- WeaknessCWE-22
Am I affected?
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Description
A previously disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2023-30584) was patched insufficiently in commit 205f1e6. The new path traversal vulnerability arises because the implementation does not protect itself against the application overwriting built-in utility functions with user-defined implementations. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2023-10-1804:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-39331?format=csv
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Versions per branch
NVD · OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20.x | ≥ 20.0.0, < 20.8.1 | 20.8.1 | NVD · OSV |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Packages
- nodejsAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 1:20.8.1-1.module_el8.9.0+3675+0258a6d9and 3 other packages
- nodejs-nodemonAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 3.0.1-1.module_el8.9.0+3675+0258a6d9
- nodejs-packagingAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 2021.06-4.module_el8.9.0+3684+11b9e959and 1 other package
- npmAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 1:10.1.0-1.20.8.1.1.module_el8.9.0+3675+0258a6d9
Fix
- Update Node.js to 20.8.1
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Published
- 2023-10-18
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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