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Oracle Linux 8 : nodejs:18 (ELSA-2024-1510)

2024-03-2700:00:00
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8
oracle linux 8
node.js
vulnerabilities
denial of service
covert timing
remote exploit
elevated privileges

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1510 advisory.

  • 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. (CVE-2024-22019)

  • 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)

  • 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-2024-21892)

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 Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2024-1510.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(192619);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-46809", "CVE-2024-21892", "CVE-2024-22019");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : nodejs:18 (ELSA-2024-1510)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ELSA-2024-1510 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-22019)

  - 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)

  - 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-2024-21892)

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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-1510.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/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:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/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-2024-21892");

  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:"2024/02/14");
  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:"cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-full-i18n");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-nodemon");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-packaging");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:npm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux 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/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/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$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

var module_ver = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/nodejs');
if (isnull(module_ver)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module nodejs:18');
if ('18' >!< module_ver) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, 'Module nodejs:' + module_ver);

var appstreams = {
    'nodejs:18': [
      {'reference':'nodejs-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-devel-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-docs-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-full-i18n-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-nodemon-3.0.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90157+ed89dc20', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'nodejs-packaging-2021.06-4.module+el8.9.0+90157+ed89dc20', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'nodejs-packaging-bundler-2021.06-4.module+el8.9.0+90157+ed89dc20', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'npm-10.2.4-1.18.19.1.1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-devel-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'nodejs-full-i18n-18.19.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'},
      {'reference':'npm-10.2.4-1.18.19.1.1.module+el8.9.0+90195+64cfbb95', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'1'}
    ]
};

var flag = 0;
var appstreams_found = 0;
foreach var 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 var 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 = 'EL' + 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:18');

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      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 / nodejs-devel / nodejs-docs / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinux8cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream
oraclelinux8cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8
oraclelinuxnodejsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs
oraclelinuxnodejs-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-devel
oraclelinuxnodejs-docsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-docs
oraclelinuxnodejs-full-i18np-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-full-i18n
oraclelinuxnodejs-nodemonp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-nodemon
oraclelinuxnodejs-packagingp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-packaging
oraclelinuxnodejs-packaging-bundlerp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler
oraclelinuxnpmp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:npm

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%