The version of Node.js installed on the remote host is prior to 18.20.6, 20.18.2, 22.13.1, 23.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Security Releases advisory.

  - A memory leak could occur when a remote peer abruptly closes the socket without sending a GOAWAY     notification. Additionally, if an invalid header was detected by nghttp2, causing the connection to be     terminated by the peer, the same leak was triggered. This flaw could lead to increased memory consumption     and potential denial of service under certain conditions. This vulnerability affects HTTP/2 Server users     on Node.js v18.x, v20.x, v22.x and v23.x. Impact: Thank you, to newtmitch for reporting this vulnerability     and thank you RafaelGSS for fixing it. (CVE-2025-23085)

  - With the aid of the diagnostics_channel utility, an event can be hooked into whenever a worker thread is     created. This is not limited only to workers but also exposes internal workers, where an instance of them     can be fetched, and its constructor can be grabbed and reinstated for malicious usage. This vulnerability     affects Permission Model users (--permission) on Node.js v20, v22, and v23. Impact: Thank you, to     leodog896 for reporting this vulnerability and thank you RafaelGSS for fixing it. (CVE-2025-23083)

  - A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, specifically affecting the handling of drive names in the     Windows environment. Certain Node.js functions do not treat drive names as special on Windows. As a     result, although Node.js assumes a relative path, it actually refers to the root directory. On Windows, a     path that does not start with the file separator is treated as relative to the current directory. This     vulnerability affects Windows users of path.join API. Impact: Thank you, to taise for reporting this     vulnerability and thank you tniessen for fixing it. (CVE-2025-23084)

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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Node.js 18.x < 18.20.6 / 20.x < 20.18.2 / 22.x < 22.13.1 / 23.x < 23.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Security Releases).

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Version 1.3 Jan 24, 2025, 1:52 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202501241352
Version 1.2 Jan 23, 2025, 6:46 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.7) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2025-23083") Plugin Feed: 202501230646
Version 1.1 Jan 21, 2025, 9:07 PM New Plugin Feed: 202501212107