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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-30588

🗓️ 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Linux/Unix hosts have unpatched CVE-2023-30588, risking denial of service due to key handling issues.

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    non-expect termination occurs making it susceptible to DoS attacks when the attacker could force
    interruptions of application processing, as the process terminates when accessing public key info of
    provided certificates from user code. The current context of the users will be gone, and that will cause a
    DoS scenario. This vulnerability affects all active Node.js versions v16, v18, and, v20. (CVE-2023-30588)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "CentOS Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "8",
        "pkgs": [
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          {"reference": "nodejs-full-i18n"},
          {"reference": "nodejs-libs"},
          {"reference": "nodejs-nodemon"},
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          {"reference": "nodejs-packaging-bundler"},
          {"reference": "npm"},
          {"reference": "v8-12.4-devel"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
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      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
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}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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