RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs8-nodejs (RHSA-2020:2625)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170350

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-nodejs8-nodejs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2625 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-nodejs8-nodejs (8.17.0).
(BZ#1829414)

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-brace-expansion: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2017-18077)

* nodejs-chownr: TOCTOU vulnerability in `chownr` function in chownr.js (CVE-2017-18869)

* nodejs-sshpk: ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys in lib/formats/ssh.js (CVE-2018-3737)

* nodejs-deep-extend: Prototype pollution can allow attackers to modify object properties (CVE-2018-3750)

* npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation (CVE-2019-16775)

* npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field (CVE-2019-16776)

* npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite (CVE-2019-16777)

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-nodejs8-nodejs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2625.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?02c5dc03

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2625

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1448380

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1567228

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1578246

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1611613

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788301

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788305

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788310

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829414

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170350

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2625.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

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-2018-3750

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-nodejs8-npm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-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: 6/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18077, CVE-2017-18869, CVE-2018-3737, CVE-2018-3750, CVE-2019-16775, CVE-2019-16776, CVE-2019-16777

CWE: 20, 367, 400

RHSA: 2020:2625