The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2023:4034 advisory.
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31124)
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. ares_inet_net_pton() is vulnerable to a buffer underflow for certain ipv6 addresses, in particular 0::00:00:00/2 was found to cause an issue. C-ares only uses this function internally for configuration purposes which would require an administrator to configure such an address via ares_set_sortlist(). However, users may externally use ares_inet_net_pton() for other purposes and thus be vulnerable to more severe issues. This issue has been fixed in 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31130)
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has been fixed in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31147)
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP packet with a length of 0 and returns them to the target resolver. The target resolver erroneously interprets the 0 length as a graceful shutdown of the connection. This issue has been patched in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-32067)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2023:4034. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(178196);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/08");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2023-31124",
"CVE-2023-31130",
"CVE-2023-31147",
"CVE-2023-32067"
);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2023:4034");
script_name(english:"CentOS 8 : nodejs:16 (CESA-2023:4034)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
CESA-2023:4034 advisory.
- c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build
system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will
downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of
entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31124)
- c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. ares_inet_net_pton() is vulnerable to a buffer underflow for
certain ipv6 addresses, in particular 0::00:00:00/2 was found to cause an issue. C-ares only uses this
function internally for configuration purposes which would require an administrator to configure such an
address via ares_set_sortlist(). However, users may externally use ares_inet_net_pton() for other purposes
and thus be vulnerable to more severe issues. This issue has been fixed in 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31130)
- c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom() are unavailable, c-ares
uses rand() to generate random numbers used for DNS query ids. This is not a CSPRNG, and it is also not
seeded by srand() so will generate predictable output. Input from the random number generator is fed into
a non-compilant RC4 implementation and may not be as strong as the original RC4 implementation. No attempt
is made to look for modern OS-provided CSPRNGs like arc4random() that is widely available. This issue has
been fixed in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-31147)
- c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target
resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP packet with a length of 0 and returns them to
the target resolver. The target resolver erroneously interprets the 0 length as a graceful shutdown of the
connection. This issue has been patched in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-32067)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4034");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected nodejs-packaging package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-31147");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/05/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/07/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/07/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-packaging");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'CentOS' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Stream)?(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CentOS');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if ('CentOS Stream' >< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8.x', 'CentOS Stream ' + os_ver);
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '8')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8.x', 'CentOS ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CentOS', cpu);
var module_ver = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/nodejs');
if (isnull(module_ver)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module nodejs:16');
if ('16' >!< module_ver) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, 'Module nodejs:' + module_ver);
var appstreams = {
'nodejs:16': [
{'reference':'nodejs-packaging-25-1.module_el8.5.0+900+545f34ef', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
]
};
var flag = 0;
appstreams_found = 0;
foreach module (keys(appstreams)) {
var appstream = NULL;
var appstream_name = NULL;
var appstream_version = NULL;
var appstream_split = split(module, sep:':', keep:FALSE);
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_split)) {
appstream_name = appstream_split[0];
appstream_version = appstream_split[1];
if (!empty_or_null(appstream_name)) appstream = get_one_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/' + appstream_name);
}
if (!empty_or_null(appstream) && appstream_version == appstream || appstream_name == 'all') {
appstreams_found++;
foreach package_array ( appstreams[module] ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'CentOS-' + package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
}
}
if (!appstreams_found) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module nodejs:16');
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'nodejs-packaging');
}