SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : nodejs18 (SUSE-SU-2024:0730-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191451

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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-2024:0730-1 advisory.

Update to 18.19.1: (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-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-2024-22025: 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 LTS version 18.19.0

* deps: npm updates to 10.x
* esm:
- Leverage loaders when resolving subsequent loaders
- import.meta.resolve unflagged
- --experimental-default-type flag to flip module defaults

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: High

ID: 191451

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0730-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21892

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs18-devel, 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: 2/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46809, CVE-2024-21892, CVE-2024-22019, CVE-2024-22025, CVE-2024-24758, CVE-2024-24806

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0730-1

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