RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs14 (RHSA-2024:1354)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192193

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-nodejs14.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1354 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* rh-nodejs14-nodejs: reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (CVE-2024-22019)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available in the References section.

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-nodejs14 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1354.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?101145ac

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264574

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1354

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192193

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1354.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22019

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22019

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2024:1354