It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-568 advisory.

  - A vulnerability in Node.js has been identified, allowing for a Denial of Service (DoS) attack through     resource exhaustion when using the fetch() function to retrieve content from an untrusted URL. The     vulnerability stems from the fact that the fetch() function in Node.js always decodes Brotli, making it     possible for an attacker to cause resource exhaustion when fetching content from an untrusted URL. An     attacker controlling the URL passed into fetch() can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory,     potentially leading to process termination, depending on the system configuration. (CVE-2024-22025)

  - Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js. Undici already cleared Authorization     headers on cross-origin redirects, but did not clear `Proxy-Authentication` headers. This issue has been     patched in versions 5.28.3 and 6.6.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for     this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-24758)

  - c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. `ares__read_line()` is used to parse local     configuration files such as `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/nsswitch.conf`, the `HOSTALIASES` file, and if using     a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the `/etc/hosts` file. If any of these configuration files has an     embedded `NULL` character as the first character in a new line, it can lead to attempting to read memory     prior to the start of the given buffer which may result in a crash. This issue is fixed in c-ares 1.27.0.
    No known workarounds exist. (CVE-2024-25629)

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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Amazon Linux 2023 : nodejs, nodejs-devel, nodejs-full-i18n (ALAS2023-2024-568)

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