CVE-2023-30588

Name	CVE-2023-30588
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-5589-1
Debian Bugs	1039990

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nodejs (PTS)	buster	10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4	fixed
	bookworm	18.13.0+dfsg1-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	18.20.1+dfsg-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
nodejs	source	buster	(not affected)
nodejs	source	bullseye	(not affected)
nodejs	source	bookworm	18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1	DSA-5589-1
nodejs	source	(unstable)	18.13.0+dfsg1-1.1		1039990

Notes

[bullseye] - nodejs <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[buster] - nodejs <not-affected> (X509Certificate API introduced later)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases#process-interuption-due-to-invalid-public-key-information-in-x509-certificates-medium-cve-2023-30588
https://hackerone.com/reports/1884159
Fixed by: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5a92ea7a3b6210f04c902e177f9dc673ae866393 (v16.x)