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.

- 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: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

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

- Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

- 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 be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)

- 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)

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: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/9/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

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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