CVE-2023-30588

Description

When an invalid public key is used to create an x509 certificate using the crypto.X509Certificate() API a non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force interruptions of application processing, as the process terminates when accessing public key info of provided certificates from user code. The current context of the users will be gone, and that will cause a DoS scenario. This vulnerability affects all active Node.js versions v16, v18, and, v20.

How to fix CVE-2023-30588

To remediate CVE-2023-30588, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 16.20.1 or later
• —upgrade to 16.20.1 or later
• —upgrade to 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1 or later

Is CVE-2023-30588 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• >= 16.0.0, < 16.20.1, >= 18.0.0, < 18.16.1, >= 20.0.0, < 20.3.1
• >= 16.0.0, < 16.20.1, >= 18.0.0, < 18.16.1, >= 20.0.0, < 20.3.1
• from 0, < 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1

CVSS scores

References (5)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-30588
• WEBnodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases
• WEBnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30588
• WEBsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/