CVE-2025-23083

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created

High · published January 22, 2025

CVSS v3.0
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage.

This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00422 · 35.4th percentile
Published
2025-01-22T01:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JAN 01:11Z
    With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created
    cvelistv5