The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1583 advisory.

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

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (18.14.2).

    Security Fix(es):

    * glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

    * http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

    * Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

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

    * 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.

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 8 : nodejs:18 (RHSA-2023:1583)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189668

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.1 Apr 23, 2024, 11:13 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404232313
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401262318