The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0715-1 advisory.

  - 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)

  - The npm package tar (aka node-tar) before versions 6.1.2, 5.0.7, 4.4.15, and 3.2.3 has an arbitrary File     Creation/Overwrite vulnerability via insufficient symlink protection. `node-tar` aims to guarantee that     any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted. This is, in part, achieved     by ensuring that extracted directories are not symlinks. Additionally, in order to prevent unnecessary     `stat` calls to determine whether a given path is a directory, paths are cached when directories are     created. This logic was insufficient when extracting tar files that contained both a directory and a     symlink with the same name as the directory. This order of operations resulted in the directory being     created and added to the `node-tar` directory cache. When a directory is present in the directory cache,     subsequent calls to mkdir for that directory are skipped. However, this is also where `node-tar` checks     for symlinks occur. By first creating a directory, and then replacing that directory with a symlink, it     was thus possible to bypass `node-tar` symlink checks on directories, essentially allowing an untrusted     tar file to symlink into an arbitrary location and subsequently extracting arbitrary files into that     location, thus allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite. This issue was addressed in releases 3.2.3,     4.4.15, 5.0.7 and 6.1.2. (CVE-2021-32803)

  - The npm package tar (aka node-tar) before versions 6.1.1, 5.0.6, 4.4.14, and 3.3.2 has a arbitrary File     Creation/Overwrite vulnerability due to insufficient absolute path sanitization. node-tar aims to prevent     extraction of absolute file paths by turning absolute paths into relative paths when the `preservePaths`     flag is not set to `true`. This is achieved by stripping the absolute path root from any absolute file     paths contained in a tar file. For example `/home/user/.bashrc` would turn into `home/user/.bashrc`. This     logic was insufficient when file paths contained repeated path roots such as `////home/user/.bashrc`.
    `node-tar` would only strip a single path root from such paths. When given an absolute file path with     repeating path roots, the resulting path (e.g. `///home/user/.bashrc`) would still resolve to an absolute     path, thus allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite. This issue was addressed in releases 3.2.2,     4.4.14, 5.0.6 and 6.1.1. Users may work around this vulnerability without upgrading by creating a custom     `onentry` method which sanitizes the `entry.path` or a `filter` method which removes entries with absolute     paths. See referenced GitHub Advisory for details. Be aware of CVE-2021-32803 which fixes a similar bug in     later versions of tar. (CVE-2021-32804)

  - ansi-regex is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CVE-2021-3807)

  - json-schema is vulnerable to Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype     Pollution') (CVE-2021-3918)

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

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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs14 (SUSE-SU-2022:0715-1)

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