All versions of package trim-off-newlines are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via string processing.

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

  - All versions of package trim-off-newlines are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
    via string processing. (CVE-2021-23425)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4711 advisory.

    The ovirt-engine package provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, a centralized management platform     that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a     comprehensive range of features including search capabilities, resource management, live migrations, and     virtual infrastructure provisioning.

    Security Fix(es):

    * nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes     (CVE-2021-3807)

    * nodejs-trim-off-newlines: ReDoS via string processing (CVE-2021-23425)

    * normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502)

    * jquery-ui: XSS in the altField option of the datepicker widget (CVE-2021-41182)

    * jquery-ui: XSS in *Text options of the datepicker widget (CVE-2021-41183)

    * jquery-ui: XSS in the 'of' option of the .position() util (CVE-2021-41184)

    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.

    A list of bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes book:

    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.4/html-single/technical_notes

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
409398	SCA: security update for trim-off-newlines (GHSA-38fc-wpqx-33j7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
409398	SCA: security update for trim-off-newlines (GHSA-38fc-wpqx-33j7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
161619	RHEL 8 : RHV Manager (ovirt-engine) [ovirt-4.5.0] (RHSA-2022:4711)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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