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AlmaLinux 8 : nodejs:16 (ALSA-2021:5171)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158872

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:5171 advisory.

 * 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)

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-5171.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158872

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2021-5171.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 3/12/2022

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:alma:linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-nodemon, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-full-i18n

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2021

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-2021-3807, CVE-2021-3918

IAVB: 2021-B-0059-S