RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs14-nodejs (RHSA-2023:1744)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174180

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1744 advisory.

- c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

- http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

- decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-38900)

- Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

- Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174180

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1744.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/12/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs14-scldevel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25881, CVE-2022-38900, CVE-2022-4904, CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23920

CWE: 119, 1333, 20, 426, 863

RHSA: 2023:1744

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