SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs12 (SUSE-SU-2021:2326-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 152272

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2326-1 advisory.

- update to 12.22.2:
- CVE-2021-22918: Out of bounds read (bsc#1187973)
- CVE-2021-23362: ssri Regular Expression Denial of Service and hosted-git-info (bsc#1187977)
- CVE-2021-27290: Regular Expression Denial of Service (bsc#1187976)
- CVE-2021-3450: OpenSSL - CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT (bsc#1183851)
- CVE-2021-3449: OpenSSL - NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing (bsc#1183852)
- CVE-2020-7774: npm - Update y18n to fix Prototype-Pollution (bsc#1184450)

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

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 nodejs12, nodejs12-devel, nodejs12-docs and / or npm12 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 152272

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2326-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/9/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2020-7774

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:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7774, CVE-2021-22918, CVE-2021-23362, CVE-2021-27290, CVE-2021-3449, CVE-2021-3450

IAVA: 2021-A-0149-S, 2021-A-0192-S, 2021-A-0193-S, 2021-A-0195

IAVB: 2021-B-0041-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2326-1

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