Insufficient validation and sanitization of user input exists in url-parse npm package version 1.4.4 and earlier may allow attacker to bypass security checks.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Insufficient validation and sanitization of user input exists in url-parse npm package version 1.4.4 and
    earlier may allow attacker to bypass security checks. (CVE-2020-8124)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5973-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service, or to perform a server-side request forgery attack or open redirect attack.
    (CVE-2018-3774)

    It was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     bypass input validation. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-8124)

    Yaniv Nizry discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service, or to perform a server-side request forgery attack or open redirect attack.
    This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-27515)

    It was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service, or to perform a server-side request forgery attack or open redirect attack.
    This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3664)

    It was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     bypass authorization. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0512,     CVE-2022-0639, CVE-2022-0691)

    Rohan Sharma discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated     system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to bypass authorization. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-0686)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0972 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for     installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

    Security Fix(es):

    * npmjs-url-parse: Improper validation of protocol of the returned URL (CVE-2020-8124)

    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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
409994	SCA: security update for url-parse (GHSA-46c4-8wrp-j99v)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
409994	SCA: security update for url-parse (GHSA-46c4-8wrp-j99v)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
173433	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : url-parse vulnerabilities (USN-5973-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
170339	RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.10 Jaeger and Kiali (RHSA-2020:0972)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2020-8124

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Tenable Plugins

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