RHEL 8 : nodejs:16 (RHSA-2022:6449)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164959

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:16.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6449 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

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

* nodejs: DNS rebinding in --inspect via invalid IP addresses (CVE-2022-32212)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling due to flawed parsing of Transfer-Encoding (CVE-2022-32213)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling due to improper delimiting of header fields (CVE-2022-32214)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of multi-line Transfer-Encoding (CVE-2022-32215)

* got: missing verification of requested URLs allows redirects to UNIX sockets (CVE-2022-33987)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* nodejs:16/nodejs: rebase to latest upstream release (BZ#2106369)

* nodejs:16/nodejs: Specify --with-default-icu-data-dir when using bootstrap build (BZ#2111416)

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 RHEL nodejs:16 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6449.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164959

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6449.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/13/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-33987

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32212

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, 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: 9/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3807, CVE-2022-32212, CVE-2022-32213, CVE-2022-32214, CVE-2022-32215, CVE-2022-33987

CWE: 400, 444, 601, 703

IAVB: 2022-B-0036-S

RHSA: 2022:6449

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