This is a security release.
Notable Changes
The following CVEs are fixed in this release:
- CVE-2023-23918: Node.js Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (High)
- CVE-2023-23919: Node.js OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (Medium)
- CVE-2023-23920: Node.js insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (Low)
Fixed by an update to undici:
- CVE-2023-23936: Fetch API in Node.js did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (Medium)
- See GHSA-5r9g-qh6m-jxff for more information.
- CVE-2023-24807: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers in Node.js fetch API (Low)
- See GHSA-r6ch-mqf9-qc9w for more information.
More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in February 2023 Security Releases blog post.
This security release includes OpenSSL security updates as outlined in the recent
OpenSSL security advisory.
Commits
- [
7fef050447] - build: build ICU with ICU_NO_USER_DATA_OVERRIDE (RafaelGSS) nodejs-private/node-private#374 - [
b558e9f476] - crypto: clear OpenSSL error on invalid ca cert (RafaelGSS) nodejs-private/node-private#375 - [
160adb7ffc] - crypto: clear OpenSSL error queue after calling X509_check_private_key() (Filip Skokan) #45495 - [
d0ece30948] - crypto: clear OpenSSL error queue after calling X509_verify() (Takuro Sato) #45377 - [
2d9ae4f184] - deps: update undici to v5.19.1 (Matteo Collina) nodejs-private/node-private#388 - [
d80e8312fd] - deps: cherry-pick Windows ARM64 fix for openssl (Richard Lau) #46568 - [
de5c8d2c2f] - deps: update archs files for quictls/openssl-1.1.1t+quic (RafaelGSS) #46568 - [
1a8ccfe908] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to OpenSSL_1_1_1t+quic (RafaelGSS) #46568 - [
693789780b] - doc: clarify release notes for Node.js 16.19.0 (Richard Lau) #45846 - [
f95ef064f4] - lib: makeRequireFunction patch when experimental policy (RafaelGSS) nodejs-private/node-private#358 - [
b02d895137] - policy: makeRequireFunction on mainModule.require (RafaelGSS) nodejs-private/node-private#358 - [
d7f83c420c] - test: avoid left behind child processes (Richard Lau) #46276