SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs18 (SUSE-SU-2023:4150-1)

2023-10-2100:00:00

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suse sles12

nodejs18

vulnerabilities

integrity check

code injection

denial of service

cookie leakage

nessus

security update

cve-2023-38552

cve-2023-39333

cve-2023-44487

cve-2023-45143

nessus scanner

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

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.732 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.1%

JSON

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4150-1 advisory.

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node’s policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js. (CVE-2023-38552)
Maliciously crafted export names in an imported WebAssembly module can inject JavaScript code. The injected code may be able to access data and functions that the WebAssembly module itself does not have access to, similar to as if the WebAssembly module was a JavaScript module. Impacts: Thanks to dittyroma for reporting the issue and to Tobias Nieen for fixing it. (CVE-2023-39333)
The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)
Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client written from scratch for Node.js. Prior to version 5.26.2, Undici already cleared Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects, but did not clear Cookie headers. By design, cookie headers are forbidden request headers, disallowing them to be set in RequestInit.headers in browser environments. Since undici handles headers more liberally than the spec, there was a disconnect from the assumptions the spec made, and undici’s implementation of fetch. As such this may lead to accidental leakage of cookie to a third-party site or a malicious attacker who can control the redirection target (ie. an open redirector) to leak the cookie to the third party site. This was patched in version 5.26.2. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2023-45143)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2023:4150-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
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referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4150-1 advisory.

  - When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the
    application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation,
    thus effectively disabling the integrity check. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the
    experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x. Please note that at the time
    this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js. (CVE-2023-38552)

  - Maliciously crafted export names in an imported WebAssembly module can inject JavaScript code. The
    injected code may be able to access data and functions that the WebAssembly module itself does not have
    access to, similar to as if the WebAssembly module was a JavaScript module. Impacts: Thanks to dittyroma
    for reporting the issue and to Tobias Nieen for fixing it. (CVE-2023-39333)

  - The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
    can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

  - Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client written from scratch for Node.js. Prior to version 5.26.2, Undici already
    cleared Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects, but did not clear `Cookie` headers. By design,
    `cookie` headers are forbidden request headers, disallowing them to be set in RequestInit.headers in
    browser environments. Since undici handles headers more liberally than the spec, there was a disconnect
    from the assumptions the spec made, and undici's implementation of fetch. As such this may lead to
    accidental leakage of cookie to a third-party site or a malicious attacker who can control the redirection
    target (ie. an open redirector) to leak the cookie to the third party site. This was patched in version
    5.26.2. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2023-45143)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
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include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)(?:_SAP)?\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12|SLES_SAP12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLES12 / SLES_SAP12', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');

if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/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) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);

var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0|3|4|5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP0/3/4/5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES_SAP12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0|3|4|5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES_SAP12 SP0/3/4/5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'0', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'0', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-docs-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'0', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-docs-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-docs-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-docs-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'npm16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'0', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'npm16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'npm16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'npm16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.3', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.4', 'SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'0', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
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    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'3', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'nodejs16-devel-16.20.2-8.36.1', 'sp':'4', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-12', 'sle-module-web-scripting-release-12-0', 'sles-release-12', 'sles-release-12.3', 'sles-release-12.4', 'sles-release-12.5']},
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var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 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['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
      var check_flag = 0;
      foreach var check (exists_check) {
        if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
        check_flag++;
      }
      if (!check_flag) continue;
    }
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

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, 'nodejs16 / nodejs16-devel / nodejs16-docs / npm16');
}

VendorProductVersionCPE
novellsuse_linux12cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
novellsuse_linuxnodejs16p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16
novellsuse_linuxnodejs16-develp-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-devel
novellsuse_linuxnodejs16-docsp-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-docs
novellsuse_linuxnpm16p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm16

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
novell	suse_linux	12	cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
novell	suse_linux	nodejs16	p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16
novell	suse_linux	nodejs16-devel	p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-devel
novell	suse_linux	nodejs16-docs	p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-docs
novell	suse_linux	npm16	p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm16