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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs18 (SUSE-SU-2024:4272-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 212323

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:4272-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-21538: Fixed regular expression denial of service in cross-spawn dependency (bsc#1233856)

 - Update to 18.20.5
 * esm: mark import attributes and JSON module as stable
 * deps:
 + upgrade npm to 10.8.2 + update simdutf to 5.6.0 + update brotli to 1.1.0 + update ada to 2.8.0 + update acorn to 8.13.0 + update acorn-walk to 8.3.4 + update c-ares to 1.29.0

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 nodejs18, nodejs18-devel, nodejs18-docs and / or npm18 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233856

http://www.nessus.org/u?77684050

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-21538

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 212323

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4272-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21538

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21538

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4272-1