| Name | CVE-2025-23083 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1094134 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| nodejs (PTS) | bullseye | 12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u6 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u2 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm (security) | 18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1 | vulnerable | |
| sid, trixie | 20.18.3+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nodejs | source | bullseye | (not affected) | |||
| nodejs | source | (unstable) | 20.18.2+dfsg-1 | 1094134 |
[bullseye] - nodejs <not-affected> (vulnerable code introduced later)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases#worker-permission-bypass-via-internalworker-leak-in-diagnostics-cve-2025-23083---high
Fixed by: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/51938f023aac90dc1dc0bc1f743501788613210e (v23.6.1)
Introduced by: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/44710
This feature was backported to 20.x but not for older version