RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs14-nodejs (RHSA-2021:0421)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165149

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-nodejs14-nodejs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0421 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-nodejs14-nodejs (14.15.4).

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (CVE-2020-7754)

* nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-7774)

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

* nodejs: use-after-free in the TLS implementation (CVE-2020-8265)

* c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS (CVE-2020-8277)

* nodejs-ajv: prototype pollution via crafted JSON schema in ajv.validate function (CVE-2020-15366)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling via two copies of a header field in an http request (CVE-2020-8287)

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 RHEL rh-nodejs14-nodejs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0421.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 165149

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0421.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2020-7788

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-nodejs14-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-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: 2/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15366, CVE-2020-7754, CVE-2020-7774, CVE-2020-7788, CVE-2020-8265, CVE-2020-8277, CVE-2020-8287

CWE: 119, 400, 416, 444, 471, 915

RHSA: 2021:0421

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