CentOS 8 : nodejs:10 (CESA-2020:0579)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 145979

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:0579 advisory.

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

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

- 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)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 145979

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-0579.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15606

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:npm

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2020

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: 2020:0579