SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : nodejs12 (SUSE-SU-2023:3455-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 180305

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3455-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-23918: Fixed permissions policies bypass via process.mainModule (bsc#1208481).
- CVE-2023-32002: Fixed permissions policies bypass via Module._load (bsc#1214150).
- CVE-2023-32006: Fixed permissions policies impersonation using module.constructor.createRequire() (bsc#1214156).
- CVE-2023-32559: Fixed permissions policies bypass via process.binding (bsc#1214154).
- CVE-2023-30581: Fixed mainModule.proto bypass (bsc#1212574).
- CVE-2023-30590: Fixed missing DiffieHellman key generation (bsc#1212583).
- CVE-2023-30589: Fixed HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (bsc#1212582).

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 nodejs12, nodejs12-devel, nodejs12-docs and / or npm12 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 180305

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3455-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/30/2023

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

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32002

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:nodejs12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12, 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: 8/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-30581, CVE-2023-30589, CVE-2023-30590, CVE-2023-32002, CVE-2023-32006, CVE-2023-32559

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3455-1

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