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Fedora 39 : nodejs18 (2024-8d548b8c96)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 193642

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-8d548b8c96 advisory.

 - Due to the improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync, a malicious command line argument can inject arbitrary commands and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled. Impact: Thank you, to ryotak for reporting this vulnerability and thank you Ben Noordhuis for fixing it. Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of the 18.x, 20.x, 21.x releases lines on or shortly after, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in order to address: (CVE-2024-27980)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected 1:nodejs18 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-8d548b8c96

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 193642

File Name: fedora_2024-8d548b8c96.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2024

Updated: 4/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs18

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27980