---
date: '2023-08-09T16:51:54.265Z'
category: release
title: Node.js 16.20.2 (LTS)
layout: blog-post
author: Rafael Gonzaga
---

### Notable Changes

The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

- [CVE-2023-32002](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-32002): Policies can be bypassed via Module.\_load (High)
- [CVE-2023-32006](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-32006): Policies can be bypassed by module.constructor.createRequire (Medium)
- [CVE-2023-32559](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-32559): Policies can be bypassed via process.binding (Medium)
- OpenSSL Security Releases
  - [OpenSSL security advisory 14th July](https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2023-July/000264.html).
  - [OpenSSL security advisory 19th July](https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2023-July/000265.html).
  - [OpenSSL security advisory 31st July](https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2023-July/000267.html)

More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in [August 2023 Security Releases](/blog/vulnerability/august-2023-security-releases/) blog post.

### Commits

- \[[`40c3958a5a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/40c3958a5a)] - **deps**: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1v (RafaelGSS) [#49043](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49043)
- \[[`a9ac9da89a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a9ac9da89a)] - **deps**: fix openssl crypto clean (RafaelGSS) [#49043](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49043)
- \[[`362d4c7494`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/362d4c7494)] - **deps**: upgrade openssl sources to OpenSSL_1_1_1v (RafaelGSS) [#49043](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49043)
- \[[`d8ccfe9ad4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d8ccfe9ad4)] - **policy**: handle Module.constructor and main.extensions bypass (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#445](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/445)
- \[[`242aaa0caa`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/242aaa0caa)] - **policy**: disable process.binding() when enabled (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#459](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/459)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-x86.msi \
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-x64.msi \
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/win-x86/node.exe \
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/win-x64/node.exe \
macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2.pkg \
macOS Apple Silicon 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-darwin-arm64.tar.gz \
macOS Intel 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz \
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-linux-x64.tar.xz \
Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz \
Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-linux-s390x.tar.xz \
AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-aix-ppc64.tar.gz \
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz \
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2-linux-arm64.tar.xz \
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/node-v16.20.2.tar.gz \
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.20.2/ \
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v16.20.2/api/

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