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.

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 193999

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Version 1.1 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.0 Apr 28, 2024, 1:01 AM New Plugin Feed: 202404280101