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MiracleLinux 9 : nodejs:20 (AXSA:2024-7667:01)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 293031
Synopsis
The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2024-7667:01 advisory.* nodejs: vulnerable to timing variant of the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#1 v1.5 padding (Marvin) (CVE-2023-46809)
* nodejs: reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (CVE-2024-22019)
* nodejs: code injection and privilege escalation through Linux capabilities (CVE-2024-21892)
* nodejs: path traversal by monkey-patching buffer internals (CVE-2024-21896)
* nodejs: multiple permission model bypasses due to improper path traversal sequence sanitization (CVE-2024-21891)
* nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (CVE-2024-21890)
* nodejs: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring (CVE-2024-22017) CVE-2023-46809
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CVE-2024-21890 The Node.js Permission Model does not clarify in the documentation that wildcards should be only used as the last character of a file path. For example: ``` --allow-fs-read=/home/node/.ssh/*.pub ``` will ignore `pub` and give access to everything after `.ssh/`. This misleading documentation affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.
CVE-2024-21891 Node.js depends on multiple built-in utility functions to normalize paths provided to node:fs functions, which can be overwitten with user-defined implementations leading to filesystem permission model bypass through path traversal attack. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.
CVE-2024-21892 On Linux, Node.js ignores certain environment variables if those may have been set by an unprivileged user while the process is running with elevated privileges with the only exception of CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE. Due to a bug in the implementation of this exception, Node.js incorrectly applies this exception even when certain other capabilities have been set. This allows unprivileged users to inject code that inherits the process's elevated privileges.
CVE-2024-21896 The permission model protects itself against path traversal attacks by calling path.resolve() on any paths given by the user. If the path is to be treated as a Buffer, the implementation uses Buffer.from() to obtain a Buffer from the result of path.resolve(). By monkey-patching Buffer internals, namely, Buffer.prototype.utf8Write, the application can modify the result of path.resolve(), which leads to a path traversal vulnerability. This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental permission model in Node.js 20 and Node.js 21. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js.
CVE-2024-22017 setuid() does not affect libuv's internal io_uring operations if initialized before the call to setuid().
This allows the process to perform privileged operations despite presumably having dropped such privileges through a call to setuid(). This vulnerability affects all users using version greater or equal than Node.js 18.18.0, Node.js 20.4.0 and Node.js 21.
CVE-2024-22019 A vulnerability in Node.js HTTP servers allows an attacker to send a specially crafted HTTP request with chunked encoding, leading to resource exhaustion and denial of service (DoS). The server reads an unbounded number of bytes from a single connection, exploiting the lack of limitations on chunk extension bytes. The issue can cause CPU and network bandwidth exhaustion, bypassing standard safeguards like timeouts and body size limits.
Modularity name: nodejs Stream name: 20
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 293031
File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2024-7667.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 1/20/2026
Updated: 1/20/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
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: 8.5
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: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-debugsource, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:nodejs-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-46809, CVE-2024-21890, CVE-2024-21891, CVE-2024-21892, CVE-2024-21896, CVE-2024-22017, CVE-2024-22019