RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs12-nodejs (RHSA-2022:4914)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161897

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4914 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 (12.22.12). This is the last planned rebase before the collection reaches End of Life.

Security Fix(es):

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

* 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)

* nodejs: Improper handling of URI Subject Alternative Names (CVE-2021-44531)

* nodejs: Certificate Verification Bypass via String Injection (CVE-2021-44532)

* nodejs: Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer fields (CVE-2021-44533)

* minimist: prototype pollution (CVE-2021-44906)

* 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)

* nodejs: Prototype pollution via console.table properties (CVE-2022-21824)

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?89b12433

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999731

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999739

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014057

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014059

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040839

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040846

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040856

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040862

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066009

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161897

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4914.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2022

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2021-44906

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:rh-nodejs12-npm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs12-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs12-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs12-nodejs-devel

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: 6/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22959, CVE-2021-22960, CVE-2021-37701, CVE-2021-37712, CVE-2021-3918, CVE-2021-44531, CVE-2021-44532, CVE-2021-44533, CVE-2021-44906, CVE-2022-21824

CWE: 1321, 22, 295, 444, 915

RHSA: 2022:4914