RHEL 8 : nodejs:10 (RHSA-2020:0573)

high Nessus Plugin ID 134028

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VPR Score: 6.7

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
nodejs (10.19.0).

Security Fix(es) :

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605)

* nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string (CVE-2019-15604)

* nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed (CVE-2019-15606)

* npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation (CVE-2019-16775)

* npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field (CVE-2019-16776)

* npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite (CVE-2019-16777)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 134028

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0573.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2020

Updated: 3/24/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 6.7

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15605

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15604, CVE-2019-15605, CVE-2019-15606, CVE-2019-16775, CVE-2019-16776, CVE-2019-16777

RHSA: 2020:0573

CWE: 20, 138, 172, 444