RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs8-nodejs (RHSA-2019:1821)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193999

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-nodejs8-nodejs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1821 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: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.16.0).
(BZ#1665986, BZ#1710734)

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-tar: Arbitrary file overwrites when extracting tarballs containing a hard-link (CVE-2018-20834)

* nodejs: HTTP request splitting (CVE-2018-12116)

* nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (CVE-2018-12121)

* nodejs: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service (CVE-2018-12122)

* nodejs: Hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript protocol (CVE-2018-12123)

* nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass (CVE-2019-5737)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-nodejs8-nodejs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1821.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193999

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1821.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20834

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-npm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12116, CVE-2018-12121, CVE-2018-12122, CVE-2018-12123, CVE-2018-20834, CVE-2019-5737

CWE: 113, 20, 400, 59

RHSA: 2019:1821

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