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AlmaLinux 9 : nodejs:18 (ALSA-2023:2654)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175571

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2654 advisory.

 * glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
 * c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
 * http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
 * Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
 * Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)
 * Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
 * Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
 * Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2654.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175571

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2023-2654.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2023

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-docs, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35065, CVE-2022-25881, CVE-2022-4904, CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23919, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807

CWE: 119, 1333, 20, 400, 426, 863, 93