A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API process.binding() can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of process.binding(spawn_sync) run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a policy.json file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Node.js | Nodejs | 16.0.0 (including) | 16.20.1 (including) |
| Node.js | Nodejs | 18.0.0 (including) | 18.17.0 (including) |
| Node.js | Nodejs | 20.0.0 (including) | 20.5.0 (including) |