The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3281 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-nodejs12-nodejs (12.22.5).

    Security Fix(es):

    * nodejs: Use-after-free on close http2 on stream canceling (CVE-2021-22930)

    * nodejs: Use-after-free on close http2 on stream canceling (CVE-2021-22940)

    * nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)

    * nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469)

    * c-ares: Missing input validation of host names may lead to domain hijacking (CVE-2021-3672)

    * nodejs: Improper handling of untypical characters in domain names (CVE-2021-22931)

    * nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite     (CVE-2021-32803)

    * nodejs-tar: Insufficient absolute path sanitization allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite     (CVE-2021-32804)

    * nodejs: Incomplete validation of tls rejectUnauthorized parameter (CVE-2021-22939)

    * nodejs-path-parse: ReDoS via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe and splitPathRe (CVE-2021-23343)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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.

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RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs12-nodejs and rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon (RHSA-2021:3281)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 152862

Version 1.14