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Fedora 40 : nodejs18 (2024-2c52524694)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194541

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-2c52524694 advisory.

 ## 2024-04-10, Version 18.20.2 'Hydrogen' (LTS), @RafaelGSS

 This is a security release.

 ### Notable Changes

 * CVE-2024-27980 - Command injection via args parameter of `child_process.spawn` without shell option enabled on Windows

 ### Commits

 * \[[`6627222409`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6627222409)] - **src**: disallow direct .bat and .cmd file spawning (Ben Noordhuis) [nodejs-private/node-private#564](https://github.com/nodejs- private/node-private/pull/564)

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Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected 1:nodejs18 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-2c52524694

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194541

File Name: fedora_2024-2c52524694.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs18, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27980