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Debian dla-3776 : libnode-dev - security update

2024-03-2700:00:00
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debian 10
libnode-dev
multiple vulnerabilities
diffiehellman
dos
timing side-channel attack
crypto library
cve-2023-30590
cve-2024-22025
cve-2023-46809
nessus
self-reported version.

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

31.1%

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3776 advisory.

  • The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling setPrivateKey(). However, the documentation says this API call: Generates private and public Diffie-Hellman key values. The documented behavior is very different from the actual behavior, and this difference could easily lead to security issues in applications that use these APIs as the DiffieHellman may be used as the basis for application- level security, implications are consequently broad. (CVE-2023-30590)

  • A vulnerability in Node.js has been identified, allowing for a Denial of Service (DoS) attack through resource exhaustion when using the fetch() function to retrieve content from an untrusted URL. The vulnerability stems from the fact that the fetch() function in Node.js always decodes Brotli, making it possible for an attacker to cause resource exhaustion when fetching content from an untrusted URL. An attacker controlling the URL passed into fetch() can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory, potentially leading to process termination, depending on the system configuration. (CVE-2024-22025)

  • A vulnerability in the privateDecrypt() API of the crypto library, allowed a covert timing side-channel during PKCS#1 v1.5 padding error handling. The vulnerability revealed significant timing differences in decryption for valid and invalid ciphertexts. This poses a serious threat as attackers could remotely exploit the vulnerability to decrypt captured RSA ciphertexts or forge signatures, especially in scenarios involving API endpoints processing Json Web Encryption messages. Impacts: Thank you, to hkario for reporting this vulnerability and thank you Michael Dawson for fixing it. (CVE-2023-46809)

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 descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory dla-3776. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(192597);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-30590", "CVE-2023-46809", "CVE-2024-22025");

  script_name(english:"Debian dla-3776 : libnode-dev - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
dla-3776 advisory.

  - The generateKeys() API function returned from crypto.createDiffieHellman() only generates missing (or
    outdated) keys, that is, it only generates a private key if none has been set yet, but the function is
    also needed to compute the corresponding public key after calling setPrivateKey(). However, the
    documentation says this API call: Generates private and public Diffie-Hellman key values. The documented
    behavior is very different from the actual behavior, and this difference could easily lead to security
    issues in applications that use these APIs as the DiffieHellman may be used as the basis for application-
    level security, implications are consequently broad. (CVE-2023-30590)

  - A vulnerability in Node.js has been identified, allowing for a Denial of Service (DoS) attack through
    resource exhaustion when using the fetch() function to retrieve content from an untrusted URL. The
    vulnerability stems from the fact that the fetch() function in Node.js always decodes Brotli, making it
    possible for an attacker to cause resource exhaustion when fetching content from an untrusted URL. An
    attacker controlling the URL passed into fetch() can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory,
    potentially leading to process termination, depending on the system configuration. (CVE-2024-22025)

  - A vulnerability in the privateDecrypt() API of the crypto library, allowed a covert timing side-channel
    during PKCS#1 v1.5 padding error handling. The vulnerability revealed significant timing differences in
    decryption for valid and invalid ciphertexts. This poses a serious threat as attackers could remotely
    exploit the vulnerability to decrypt captured RSA ciphertexts or forge signatures, especially in scenarios
    involving API endpoints processing Json Web Encryption messages. Impacts: Thank you, to hkario for
    reporting this vulnerability and thank you Michael Dawson for fixing it. (CVE-2023-46809)

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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nodejs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-30590");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-46809");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-22025");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/nodejs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the libnode-dev packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/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:N/I:H/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-2023-30590");

  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:"2023/06/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/03/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/03/27");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnode-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnode64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nodejs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nodejs-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 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/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var debian_release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(debian_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
debian_release = chomp(debian_release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10)\.[0-9]+", string:debian_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 10.0', 'Debian ' + debian_release);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'libnode-dev', 'reference': '10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'libnode64', 'reference': '10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'nodejs', 'reference': '10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'nodejs-doc', 'reference': '10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var _release = NULL;
  var prefix = NULL;
  var reference = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (_release && prefix && reference) {
    if (deb_check(release:_release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : deb_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libnode-dev / libnode64 / nodejs / nodejs-doc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxlibnode-devp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnode-dev
debiandebian_linuxlibnode64p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnode64
debiandebian_linuxnodejsp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nodejs
debiandebian_linuxnodejs-docp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nodejs-doc
debiandebian_linux10.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

31.1%