When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.
Impacts:
This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x.
Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-38552

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-x39v-frq9-5hh8

Published

October 18, 2023 6:30 AM

Last Modified

February 16, 2024 6:31 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 6, 2025 6:30 AM

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