A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism...

Vulnerability Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. The use of the deprecated API `process.binding()` can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of `process.binding('spawn_sync')` run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a `policy.json` file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js.

References

• https://hackerone.com/reports/1946470
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0006/