RHEL 8 : nodejs:16 (RHSA-2022:9073)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168922

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:9073 advisory.

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

The following packages were updated to later upstream versions: nodejs (16.18.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

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)

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

* nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)

* nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address (CVE-2022-43548)

* 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.

Bug Fix(es):

* nodejs:16/nodejs: Packaged version of undici does not fit with declared version. [rhel-8] (BZ#2151625)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168922

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-9073.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/19/2022

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: 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: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: 12/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44531, CVE-2021-44532, CVE-2021-44533, CVE-2021-44906, CVE-2022-21824, CVE-2022-3517, CVE-2022-43548

CWE: 1321, 1333, 295, 350, 915

RHSA: 2022:9073

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