SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs8 (SUSE-SU-2022:0563-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158357

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0563-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-23343: Fixed ReDoS via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe and splitPathRe (bsc#1192153).
- CVE-2021-32803: Fixed insufficient symlink protection in node-tar allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (bsc#1191963).
- CVE-2021-32804: Fixed insufficient absolute path sanitization in node-tar allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (bsc#1191962).
- CVE-2021-3918: Fixed improper controlled modification of object prototype attributes in json-schema (bsc#1192696).
- CVE-2021-3807: Fixed regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes in node- ansi-regex (bsc#1192154).

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 nodejs8, nodejs8-devel, nodejs8-docs and / or npm8 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158357

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0563-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

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-2021-3918

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 2/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23343, CVE-2021-32803, CVE-2021-32804, CVE-2021-3807, CVE-2021-3918

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0563-1

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