CVE record · CVE-2023-32559

Improper privilege management in Node

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.018 · 78th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: hackerone) at 24 Aug 2023, 01:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
NodeJS	Node	affected 4.0 to before 4.* semver affected 5.0 to before 5.* semver affected 6.0 to before 6.* semver affected 7.0 to before 7.* semver affected 8.0 to before 8.* semver affected 9.0 to before 9.* semver affected 10.0 to before 10.* semver affected 11.0 to before 11.* semver affected 12.0 to before 12.* semver affected 13.0 to before 13.* semver affected 14.0 to before 14.* semver affected 15.0 to before 15.* semver and 5 more Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2023-32559
CNA: hackerone
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269
Tags: Node
Privilege escalation
Published: 24 Aug 2023
Updated: 4 Nov 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.018, the 78th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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