SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs14 (SUSE-SU-2022:0569-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158433

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0569-1 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 nodejs14, nodejs14-devel, nodejs14-docs and / or npm14 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158433

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0569-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2022

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: 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-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:nodejs14, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs14-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs14-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm14

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-2022:0569-1

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