RHEL 9 : nodejs (RHSA-2023:5533)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 182781

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5533 advisory.

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

The package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.20.2).

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)

* 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: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

* nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism (CVE-2023-30581)

* nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (CVE-2023-30588)

* nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (CVE-2023-30589)

* nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key (CVE-2023-30590)

* nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire() (CVE-2023-32006)

* nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding (CVE-2023-32559)

* 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)

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: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] (BZ#2236435, BZ#2178078, BZ#2223335)

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: 182781

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5533.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/9/2023

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32002

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:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, 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: 10/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25881, CVE-2022-4904, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807, CVE-2023-30581, CVE-2023-30588, CVE-2023-30589, CVE-2023-30590, CVE-2023-32002, CVE-2023-32006, CVE-2023-32559

CWE: 119, 1268, 1333, 213, 426, 93, 94

RHSA: 2023:5533

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