The version of Node.js installed on the remote host is prior to 18.18.2, 20.8.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the Friday October 13 2023 Security Releases advisory.

  - Undici did not always clear Cookie headers on cross-origin redirects. By design, cookie headers are     forbidden request headers, disallowing them to be set in RequestInit.headers in browser environments.
    Since undici handles headers more liberally than the spec, there was a disconnect from the assumptions the     spec made, and undici's implementation of fetch. As such this may lead to accidental leakage of cookie to     a 3rd-party site or a malicious attacker who can control the redirection target (ie. an open redirector)     to leak the cookie to the 3rd party site. More details area available in GHSA-wqq4-5wpv-mx2g     (CVE-2023-45143)

  - Rapidly creating and cancelling streams (HEADERS frame immediately followed by RST_STREAM) without bound     causes denial of service. See https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487 for details. Impacts:
    (CVE-2023-44487)

  - A previously disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2023-30584) was patched insufficiently. The new path traversal     vulnerability arises because the implementation does not protect itself against the application     overwriting built-in utility functions with user-defined implementations. Impacts: Please note that at the     time this CVE is issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js. Thanks to Tobias     Nieen who reported and created the security patch. (CVE-2023-39331)

  - Various node:fs functions allow specifying paths as either strings or Uint8Array objects. In Node.js     environments, the Buffer class extends the Uint8Array class. Node.js prevents path traversal through     strings (see CVE-2023-30584) and Buffer objects (see CVE-2023-32004), but not through non-Buffer     Uint8Array objects. This is distinct from CVE-2023-32004 (report 2038134), which only referred to Buffer     objects. However, the vulnerability follows the same pattern using Uint8Array instead of Buffer. Impacts:
    Please note that at the time this CVE is issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of     Node.js. Thanks to Tobias Nieen who reported and created the security patch. (CVE-2023-39332)

  - When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the     application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to node's policy implementation, thus     effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: Please note that at the time this CVE is issued, the     policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js. Thanks to Tobias Nieen who reported and created     the security patch. (CVE-2023-38552)

  - Maliciously crafted export names in an imported WebAssembly module can inject JavaScript code. The     injected code may be able to access data and functions that the WebAssembly module itself does not have     access to, similar to as if the WebAssembly module was a JavaScript module. Impacts: Thanks to dittyroma     for reporting the issue and to Tobias Nieen for fixing it. (CVE-2023-39333)

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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Node.js 18.x < 18.18.2 / 20.x < 20.8.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Friday October 13 2023 Security Releases).

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183390

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Version 1.7 Feb 23, 2024, 12:38 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202402231238
Version 1.6 Feb 9, 2024, 11:26 PM CEA reference Plugin Feed: 202402092326
Version 1.5 Jan 9, 2024, 11:15 AM Detection (Improved detection of OS managed installs) Plugin Feed: 202401091115
Version 1.4 Oct 26, 2023, 4:21 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 4.0 to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" changed from 3.5 to 9.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-45143" to "CVE-2023-39332") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-39332, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity increased from "Low" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202310261621
Version 1.3 Oct 24, 2023, 4:27 PM IAVM reference Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310241627
Version 1.1 Oct 21, 2023, 4:19 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202310211619
Version 1.0 Oct 19, 2023, 2:51 PM New Plugin Feed: 202310191451