ubuntu · CVE-2023-32002

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Priority: medium Published: 2023-08-21 17:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-04 19:46:43 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2023-32002 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nodejs), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, lunar, mantic, noble, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 5, released 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The use of `Module._load()` can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

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