CVE-2023-38552: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Node.js Node.js: from 18.0.0, up to and including 18.18.1; from 20.1.0, up to and including 20.8.0

Published 2023-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.