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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 | nodejs | 12 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:04:47 | ||
| Ubuntu 18.04 | nodejs | 16 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:05:05 | ||
| Ubuntu 20.04 | nodejs | 20 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:51 | ||
| Ubuntu 20.04 | nodejs | 18 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:40 | ||
| Ubuntu 20.04 | nodejs | 14 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:05:00 | ||
| Ubuntu 20.04 | nodejs | 12 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:04:46 | ||
| Ubuntu 20.04 | nodejs | 16 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:05:03 | ||
| Ubuntu 22.04 | nodejs | 16 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:05:03 | ||
| Ubuntu 22.04 | nodejs | 18 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Already Fixed | 2025-12-11 15:04:51 | ||
| Ubuntu 22.04 | nodejs | 12 | 5.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-12-11 15:04:45 |