In all versions of Node.js prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4 and 10.9.0 when used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by Node.js under the names `'ucs2'`, `'ucs-2'`, `'utf16le'` and `'utf-16le'`), `Buffer#write()` can be abused to write outside of the bounds of a single `Buffer`. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2944 advisory.

  - nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2949 advisory.

    Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the     JavaScript programming language.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.11.4).
    (BZ#1621761)

    Security Fix(es):

    * nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4796-1 advisory.

    Alexander Minozhenko and James Bunton discovered that Node.js did not properly handle wildcards in name     fields of X.509 TLS certificates. An attacker could use this vulnerability to execute a machine-in-the-     middle- attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-7099)

    It was discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain NAPTR responses. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause applications using Node.js to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-1000381)

    Nikita Skovoroda discovered that Node.js mishandled certain input, leading to an out of bounds write. An     attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12115)

    Arkadiy Tetelman discovered that Node.js improperly handled certain malformed HTTP requests. An attacker     could use this vulnerability to inject unexpected HTTP requests. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     ESM. (CVE-2018-12116)

    Jan Maybach discovered that Node.js did not time out if incomplete HTTP/HTTPS headers were received. An     attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service by keeping HTTP/HTTPS connections alive     for a long period of time. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12122)

    Martin Bajanik discovered that the url.parse() method would return incorrect results if it received     specially crafted input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to spoof the hostname and bypass     hostname-specific security controls. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-12123)

    It was discovered that Node.js is vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack which could be exploited to perform     remote code execution. An attack is possible from malicious websites open in a web browser with network     access to the system running the Node.js process. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2018-7160)

    It was discovered that the Buffer.fill() and Buffer.alloc() methods improperly handled certain inputs. An     attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04     ESM. (CVE-2018-7167)

    Marco Pracucci discovered that Node.js mishandled HTTP and HTTPS connections. An attacker could use this     vulnerability to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-5737)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the K000137093 advisory.

  - Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a     Denial of Service. In order to address this vulnerability, the implementations of Buffer.alloc() and     Buffer.fill() were updated so that they zero fill instead of hanging in these cases. All versions of     Node.js 6.x (LTS Boron), 8.x (LTS Carbon), and 9.x are vulnerable. All versions of Node.js 10.x     (Current) are NOT vulnerable. (CVE-2018-7167)

  - In all versions of Node.js prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4 and 10.9.0 when used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by     Node.js under the names `'ucs2'`, `'ucs-2'`, `'utf16le'` and `'utf-16le'`), `Buffer#write()` can be abused     to write outside of the bounds of a single `Buffer`. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of     a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written. (CVE-2018-12115)

  - Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0 and 8.14.0: HTTP request splitting: If Node.js can be     convinced to use unsanitized user-provided Unicode data for the `path` option of an HTTP request, then     data can be provided which will trigger a second, unexpected, and user-defined HTTP request to made to the     same server. (CVE-2018-12116)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-48 (Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Node.js. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly write arbitrary files, cause a Denial       of Service condition or can conduct HTTP request splitting attacks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.11.4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory write in     Buffer that could be used to write to memory outside of     a Buffer's memory space buffer (bsc#1105019)

  - Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, which fixed :

  - CVE-2018-0732: Client denial-of-service due to large DH     parameter (bsc#1097158)

  - ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel

Other changes made :

  - Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

  - Fix parallel/test-tls-passphrase.js test to continue to     function with older versions of OpenSSL library.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.11.4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory write in Buffer that could be used to write to memory outside of a Buffer's memory space buffer (bsc#1105019)

Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, which fixed :

  - CVE-2018-0732: Client denial-of-service due to large DH     parameter (bsc#1097158)

  - ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel

Other changes made: Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

Fix parallel/test-tls-passphrase.js test to continue to function with older versions of OpenSSL library.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for nodejs6 to version 6.14.4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds (OOB) write in     Buffer.write() for UCS-2 encoding (bsc#1105019)     CVE-2018-0732: Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, fixing a     client DoS due to large DH parameter (bsc#1097158)

Other issues fixed :

Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for nodejs4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory write in Buffer that could be used to write to memory outside of a Buffer's memory space buffer (bsc#1105019)

Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, which fixed :

  - CVE-2018-0732: Client denial-of-service due to large DH     parameter (bsc#1097158)

  - ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel

Other changes made: Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

Use absolute paths in executable shebang lines

Fix building with ICU61.1 (bsc#1091764)

Install license with %license, not %doc (bsc#1082318)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3537 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution     designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in OpenShift Container Platform 3.x which allows for     compromise of pods running on a compute node to which a pod is scheduled with normal user privilege. This     access could include access to all secrets, pods, environment variables, running pod/container processes,     and persistent volumes, including in privileged containers. Additionally, on versions 3.6 and higher of     OpenShift Container Platform, this vulnerability allows cluster-admin level access to any API hosted by an     aggregated API server. This includes the servicecatalog API which is installed by default in 3.7 and     later. Cluster-admin level access to the service catalog allows creation of brokered services by an     unauthenticated user with escalated privileges in any namespace and on any node. This could lead to an     attacker being allowed to deploy malicious code, or alter existing services. (CVE-2018-1002105)

    * nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

    * kibana: Cross-site scripting via the source field formatter (CVE-2018-3830)

    Space precludes documenting all of the bug fixes and enhancements in this advisory. See the following     Release Notes documentation for details about these changes:

    https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/release_notes/ocp_3_11_release_notes.html

    All OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2553 advisory.

    Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of     developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized     platform.

    This release of RHOAR Node.js 10.9.0 serves as a replacement for RHOAR Node.js 10.8.0, and includes bug     fixes and enhancements. For further information, refer to the Release Notes linked to in the References     section.

    Security Fix(es):

    * openssl: Malicious server can send large prime to client during DH(E) TLS handshake causing the client     to hang (CVE-2018-0732)

    * nodejs: Unintentional exposure of uninitialized memory (CVE-2018-7166)

    * nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2552 advisory.

    Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of     developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized     platform.

    This release of RHOAR Node.js 8.11.4 serves as a replacement for RHOAR Node.js 8.11.3, and includes bug     fixes and enhancements. For further information, refer to the Release Notes linked to in the References     section.

    Security Fix(es):

    * openssl: Malicious server can send large prime to client during DH(E) TLS handshake causing the client     to hang (CVE-2018-0732)

    * nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Node.js installed on the remote host is 6.x prior to 6.14.4, 8.x prior to 8.11.4 or 10.x prior to 10.9.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for nodejs6 to version 6.14.4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds (OOB) write in Buffer.write() for UCS-2 encoding (bsc#1105019) CVE-2018-0732: Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, fixing a client DoS due to large DH parameter (bsc#1097158)

Other issues fixed :

  - Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for nodejs4 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory write in     Buffer that could be used to write to memory outside of     a Buffer's memory space buffer (bsc#1105019)

  - Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, which fixed :

  - CVE-2018-0732: Client denial-of-service due to large DH     parameter (bsc#1097158)

  - ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel

Other changes made :

  - Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

  - Use absolute paths in executable shebang lines

  - Fix building with ICU61.1 (bsc#1091764)

  - Install license with %license, not %doc (bsc#1082318)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Node.js reports : OpenSSL: Client DoS due to large DH parameter This fixes a potential denial of service (DoS) attack against client connections by a malicious server. During a TLS communication handshake, where both client and server agree to use a cipher-suite using DH or DHE (Diffie-Hellman, in both ephemeral and non-ephemeral modes), a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. Because this has been unbounded in OpenSSL, the client can be forced to spend an unreasonably long period of time to generate a key, potentially causing a denial of service. OpenSSL: ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel Attackers with access to observe cache-timing may be able to extract DSA or ECDSA private keys by causing the victim to create several signatures and watching responses. This flaw does not have a CVE due to OpenSSL policy to not assign itself CVEs for local-only vulnerabilities that are more academic than practical. This vulnerability was discovered by Keegan Ryan at NCC Group and impacts many cryptographic libraries including OpenSSL. Unintentional exposure of uninitialized memory Only Node.js 10 is impacted by this flaw.

Node.js TSC member Nikita Skovoroda discovered an argument processing flaw that causes Buffer.alloc() to return uninitialized memory. This method is intended to be safe and only return initialized, or cleared, memory. The third argument specifying encoding can be passed as a number, this is misinterpreted by Buffer's internal 'fill' method as the start to a fill operation. This flaw may be abused where Buffer.alloc() arguments are derived from user input to return uncleared memory blocks that may contain sensitive information. Out of bounds (OOB) write Node.js TSC member Nikita Skovoroda discovered an OOB write in Buffer that can be used to write to memory outside of a Buffer's memory space. This can corrupt unrelated Buffer objects or cause the Node.js process to crash.

When used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by Node.js under the names 'ucs2', 'ucs-2', 'utf16le' and 'utf-16le'), Buffer#write() can be abused to write outside of the bounds of a single Buffer. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194130	RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-nodejs6-nodejs (RHSA-2018:2944)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
194056	RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs8-nodejs (RHSA-2018:2949)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
183156	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Node.js vulnerabilities (USN-4796-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
182423	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Node.js vulnerabilities (K000137093)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	high
134776	GLSA-202003-48 : Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
123312	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs8 (openSUSE-2019-718)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120104	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs8 (SUSE-SU-2018:2812-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120103	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs6 (SUSE-SU-2018:2796-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120093	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs4 (SUSE-SU-2018:2647-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119408	RHEL 7 : OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 (RHSA-2018:3537)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
119403	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Node.js 10.9.0 (RHSA-2018:2553)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
119402	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Node.js 8.11.4 (RHSA-2018:2552)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
118937	Node.js Multiple Vulnerabilities (August 2018 Security Releases)	Nessus	Misc.	high
117790	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs8 (openSUSE-2018-1047)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
117689	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs6 (openSUSE-2018-1041)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
117381	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs4 (openSUSE-2018-991)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
112128	FreeBSD : node.js -- multiple vulnerabilities (0904e81f-a89d-11e8-afbb-bc5ff4f77b71)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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