SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : nodejs20 (SUSE-SU-2024:0643-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 191130

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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-2024:0643-1 advisory.

Update to 20.11.1: (security updates)

* CVE-2024-21892: Code injection and privilege escalation through Linux capabilities (bsc#1219992).
* CVE-2024-22019: http: Reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (bsc#1219993).
* CVE-2024-21896: Path traversal by monkey-patching Buffer internals (bsc#1219994).j
* CVE-2024-22017: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring (bsc#1219995).
* CVE-2023-46809: Node.js is vulnerable to the Marvin Attack (timing variant of the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#1 v1.5 padding) (bsc#1219997).
* CVE-2024-21891: Multiple permission model bypasses due to improper path traversal sequence sanitization (bsc#1219998).
* CVE-2024-21890: Improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (bsc#1219999).
* CVE-2024-22025: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion in fetch() brotli decoding (bsc#1220014).
* CVE-2024-24758: undici version 5.28.3 (bsc#1220017).
* CVE-2024-24806: libuv version 1.48.0 (bsc#1219724).

Update to 20.11.0:

* esm: add import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename
* fs: add c++ fast path for writeFileSync utf8
* module: remove useCustomLoadersIfPresent flag
* module: bootstrap module loaders in shadow realm
* src: add --disable-warning option
* src: create per isolate proxy env template
* src: make process binding data weak
* stream: use Array for Readable buffer
* stream: optimize creation
* test_runner: adds built in lcov reporter
* test_runner: add Date to the supported mock APIs
* test_runner, cli: add --test-timeout flag

Update to 20.10.0:

* --experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults
* The new flag --experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run ES modules when their syntax can be detected.
* Added flush option in file system functions for fs.writeFile functions
* Added experimental WebSocket client
* vm: fix V8 compilation cache support for vm.Script. This fixes performance regression since v16.x when support for importModuleDynamically was added to vm.Script

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 191130

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0643-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/29/2024

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: 5

Percentile: 94.59

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-2024-21896

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:nodejs20-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs20-docs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs20

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: 2/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46809, CVE-2024-21890, CVE-2024-21891, CVE-2024-21892, CVE-2024-21896, CVE-2024-22017, CVE-2024-22019, CVE-2024-22025, CVE-2024-24758, CVE-2024-24806

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0643-1

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