CVE-2023-32006: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The use of `module.constructor.createRequire()` 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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only
• Node.js Node.js: from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.20.1; from 18.0.0, up to and including 18.17.0; from 20.0.0, up to and including 20.5.0

Published 2023-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.