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.

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RHEL 9 : nodejs (RHSA-2023:5533)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 182781

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

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Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.2 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.1 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.0 Oct 9, 2023, 8:58 PM New Plugin Feed: 202310092058
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100