The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-61e40652be advisory.

    ## 2023-06-20, Version 16.20.1 'Gallium' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

    This is a security release.

    ### Notable Changes

    The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

    * [CVE-2023-30581](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30581): `mainModule.__proto__`     Bypass Experimental Policy Mechanism (High)
    * [CVE-2023-30585](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30585): Privilege escalation     via Malicious Registry Key manipulation during Node.js installer repair process (Medium)
    * [CVE-2023-30588](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30588): Process interuption due     to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (Medium)
    * [CVE-2023-30589](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30589): HTTP Request Smuggling     via Empty headers separated by CR (Medium)
    * [CVE-2023-30590](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-30590): DiffieHellman does not     generate keys after setting a private key (Medium)
    * OpenSSL Security Releases
      * [OpenSSL security advisory 28th March](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt).
      * [OpenSSL security advisory 20th April](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230420.txt).
      * [OpenSSL security advisory 30th May](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230530.txt)
    * c-ares vulnerabilities:
      * [GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vc](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vc)
      * [GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2)
      * [GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4)
      * [GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6v](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6v)

    More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in [June 2023 Security     Releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases/) blog post.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Fedora 37 : nodejs16 (2023-61e40652be)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178701

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Nov 15, 2024, 4:11 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411150411
Version 1.2 Apr 30, 2024, 4:27 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404300427
Version 1.1 Dec 5, 2023, 2:37 PM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-30589" to "CVE-2023-30590") Plugin Feed: 202312051437
Version 1.0 Jul 21, 2023, 8:03 AM New Plugin Feed: 202307210803