Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: nodejs / nodejs-debuginfo / nodejs-debugsource / nodejs-docs / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2023_2655)

high Nessus Plugin ID 354127

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2023_2655 advisory.

* c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

* http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

* Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

* Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

* Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

* Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ 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 based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2023_2655.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 354127

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_9_crlsa-2023_2655.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.21

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/OS/extended-third-party

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25881, CVE-2022-4904, CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807

Detections

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