RHEL 8 : nodejs:14 (RHSA-2022:0246)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 157089

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0246 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: nodejs (14.18.2), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027608)

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)

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

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

* nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807)

* normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502)

* nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (CVE-2021-37701)

* nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (CVE-2021-37712)

* llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959)

* llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 157089

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0246.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/26/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28469, CVE-2020-7788, CVE-2021-22959, CVE-2021-22960, CVE-2021-33502, CVE-2021-37701, CVE-2021-37712, CVE-2021-3807, CVE-2021-3918

CWE: 22, 400, 444, 915

IAVB: 2021-B-0059-S

RHSA: 2022:0246

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