CVE-2023-23918 (published 2023-02-23T00:00:00)
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Node.js <19.6.1, <18.14.1, <16.19.1 and <14.21.3 that made it possible to bypass the experimental Permissions (https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) feature in Node.js and access non authorized modules by using process.mainModule.require(). This only affects users who had enabled the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy.
Affected products: Vendor: n/a
Product: https://github.com/nodejs/node
Versions: Fixed in 19.6.1, 18.14.1, 16.19.1, 14.21.3