# CVE-2022-39382: NODE\_ENV in Keystone defaults to development with esbuild

- Also known as: GHSA-25MX-2MXM-6343
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.0.2
- Published: 2022-11-03 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- keystonejs keystone: from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.0.2
- @keystone-6/core (npm): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.0.2

## Description

Keystone is a headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React.`@keystone-6/core@3.0.0 || 3.0.1` users that use `NODE_ENV` to trigger security-sensitive functionality in their production builds are vulnerable to `NODE_ENV` being inlined to `"development"` for user code, irrespective of what your environment variables. If you do not use `NODE_ENV` in your user code to trigger security-sensitive functionality, you are not impacted by this vulnerability. Any dependencies that use `NODE_ENV` to trigger particular behaviors (optimizations, security or otherwise) should still respect your environment's configured `NODE_ENV` variable. The application's dependencies, as found in `node_modules` (including `@keystone-6/core`), are typically not compiled as part of this process, and thus should be unaffected. We have tested this assumption by verifying that `NODE_ENV=production yarn keystone start` still uses secure cookies when using `statelessSessions`. This vulnerability has been fixed in @keystone-6/core@3.0.2, regression tests have been added for this vulnerability in #8063.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on keystonejs keystone, @keystone-6/core, upgrade to a fixed version (3.0.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/security/advisories/GHSA-25mx-2mxm-6343
- https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8031/
- https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/8063

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