# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-32002"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-08-21T16:52:42.147Z"
updatedAt: "2025-07-02T14:48:45.647Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:53.804Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-32002"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-32002.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32002"
title: null
summary: "The use of `Module._load()` can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module.\n\nThis vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x.\n\nPlease note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.*"},{"version":"5.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.*"},{"version":"8.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.*"},{"version":"9.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"9.*"},{"version":"10.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"10.*"},{"version":"11.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"11.*"},{"version":"12.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"12.*"},{"version":"13.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"13.*"},{"version":"14.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"14.*"},{"version":"15.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"15.*"},{"version":"16.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"16.20.2"},{"version":"17.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"17.*"},{"version":"18.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"18.17.1"},{"version":"19.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"19.*"},{"version":"20.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"20.5.1"}],"vendor":"NodeJS","product":"Node","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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