SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs16 (SUSE-SU-2024:0729-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191641

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0729-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

* 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-2024-22019: http: Reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (bsc#1219993).
* CVE-2024-22025: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion in fetch() brotli decoding (bsc#1220014).
* CVE-2024-24758: ignore proxy-authorization header (bsc#1220017).
* CVE-2024-24806: fix improper domain lookup that potentially leads to SSRF attacks (bsc#1219724).

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 nodejs16, nodejs16-devel, nodejs16-docs and / or npm16 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 191641

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0729-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/6/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm16

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-2024-22019, CVE-2024-22025, CVE-2024-24758, CVE-2024-24806

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0729-1

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