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CVE-2023-30588

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CVE-2023-30588

Published: Nov 28, 2023

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

NodeJS

Node

affected
4.0 - < 4.*
affected
5.0 - < 5.*
affected
6.0 - < 6.*
affected
7.0 - < 7.*
affected
8.0 - < 8.*

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