Node.js 10.x < 10.21.0 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Mac OS X
🗓️ 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:nodejs:node.js";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112792");
script_version("2025-09-17T05:39:26+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-17 05:39:26 +0000 (Wed, 17 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-07-29 09:06:11 +0000 (Wed, 29 Jul 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-07-20 23:15:00 +0000 (Tue, 20 Jul 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-10531");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Node.js 10.x < 10.21.0 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_nodejs_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Nodejs/MacOSX/Ver");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Node.js is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode (ICU)
for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow,
exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Node.js 10.x < 10.21.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 10.21.0.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2020-security-releases/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.21.0/");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE)))
exit(0);
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"10.0", test_version2:"10.20.1")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"10.21.0", install_path:path);
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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