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Rocky Linux 8 : nodejs:14 (RLSA-2021:3666)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 157829

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:3666 advisory.

- Node.js before 16.6.0, 14.17.4, and 12.22.4 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution, XSS, Application crashes due to missing input validation of host names returned by Domain Name Servers in Node.js dns library which can lead to output of wrong hostnames (leading to Domain Hijacking) and injection vulnerabilities in applications using the library. (CVE-2021-22931)

- All versions of package path-parse are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity. (CVE-2021-23343)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 157829

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2021-3666.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 2/9/2022

Updated: 2/14/2022

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

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 Score Source: CVE-2021-22931

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

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: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:npm, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22931, CVE-2021-23343

RLSA: 2021:3666

IAVB: 2021-B-0050-S

IAVA: 2021-A-0487