Updated: 2025-11-10 00:48:58.674622
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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | 0.0 | |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 5.3 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | nodejs | 14 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-02-03 17:19:56 | Not affected: CVE-2023-30588 targets a crash in the crypto.X509Certificate() API, which was introduc... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | nodejs | 16 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2026-01-30 14:15:49 | Not affected: CVE-2023-30588 targets a crash in the crypto.X509Certificate() API, which was introduc... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | nodejs | 18 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2026-01-30 14:15:48 | Not affected: CVE-2023-30588 targets a crash in the crypto.X509Certificate() API, which was introduc... | |
| Alpine Linux 3.22 | nodejs | 23 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2026-02-11 12:35:55 | Not affected: CVE-2023-30588 targets a crash in the crypto.X509Certificate() API, which was introduc... | |
| Debian 10 | nodejs | 16 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:05:06 | ||
| Debian 10 | nodejs | 20 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:49 | ||
| Debian 10 | nodejs | 18 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:49 | ||
| Debian 10 | nodejs | 14 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:04:43 | ||
| Debian 10 | nodejs | 12 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:04:44 | ||
| Debian 11 | nodejs | 18 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:48 |