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Fedora 38 : nodejs18 (2023-d5030c983c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183761

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-d5030c983c advisory.

 ## 2023-10-13, Version 18.18.2 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

 This is a security release.

 ### Notable Changes

 The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

 * [CVE-2023-44487](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-44487): `nghttp2` Security Release (High)
 * [CVE-2023-45143](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-45143): `undici` Security Release (High)
 * [CVE-2023-38552](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-38552): Integrity checks according to policies can be circumvented (Medium)
 * [CVE-2023-39333](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-39333): Code injection via WebAssembly export names (Low)

 More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in [October 2023 Security Releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-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.

Solution

Update the affected 1:nodejs18 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-d5030c983c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183761

File Name: fedora_2023-d5030c983c.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/24/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs18, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38552, CVE-2023-39333, CVE-2023-44487, CVE-2023-45143