RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon (RHSA-2023:0612)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171023

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0612 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 (14.21.1), rh- nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20). (BZ#2129806, BZ#2135519, BZ#2135520, BZ#2141022)

Security Fix(es):

* glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

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

* node-fetch: exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor (CVE-2022-0235)

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

* express: qs prototype poisoning causes the hang of the node process (CVE-2022-24999)

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

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):

* rh-nodejs14-nodejs: Provide full-i18n subpackage (BZ#2009880)

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 / rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:0612.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e213b2c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0612

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2009880

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044591

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066009

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129806

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134609

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140911

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150323

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156324

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171023

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0612.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2023

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-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: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-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon

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: 2/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35065, CVE-2021-44906, CVE-2022-0235, CVE-2022-24999, CVE-2022-3517, CVE-2022-43548

CWE: 1321, 1333, 350, 400, 601

RHSA: 2023:0612