RHEL 8 : nodejs:14 (RHSA-2022:7830)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167078

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:14.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7830 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* 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)

* nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)

* 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 RHEL nodejs:14 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7830.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f704dada

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

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=2130518

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7830

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167078

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7830.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2022

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, 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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44531, CVE-2021-44532, CVE-2021-44533, CVE-2022-21824, CVE-2022-35256

CWE: 295, 444, 915

RHSA: 2022:7830