Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-23919

HighPublic PoC

Published: 23 February 2023

Published
23 February 2023
Modified
12 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-23919 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Nodejs Node.Js. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A cryptographic vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.2.0, <18.14.1, <16.19.1, <14.21.3 that in some cases did does not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations that may set it. This may lead to false positive errors during subsequent cryptographic operations that…

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happen to be on the same thread. This in turn could be used to cause a denial of service.

CWE(s)
CWE-310NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

nodejs
node.js
14.0.0 — 14.14.0 · 14.0.0 — 14.21.3 · 16.0.0 — 16.12.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References