The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6491-1 advisory.

    Axel Chong discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-32212)

    Zeyu Zhang discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32213, CVE-2022-32214,     CVE-2022-32215)

    It was discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-35256)

    It was discovered that Node.js incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-43548)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Node.js vulnerabilities (USN-6491-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186039

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Version 1.1 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.0 Nov 21, 2023, 6:18 PM New Plugin Feed: 202311211818