Important: nodejs:20 security update

2024-05-0613:05:29

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node.js

security

update

vulnerability

bleichenbacher attack

pkcs#1

dos attacks

code injection

privilege escalation

linux capabilities

path traversal

permission model bypass

wildcards

setuid.

7.9 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

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

8.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable
network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

Security Fix(es):

nodejs: vulnerable to timing variant of the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#1 v1.5 padding (Marvin) (CVE-2023-46809)
nodejs: reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (CVE-2024-22019)
nodejs: code injection and privilege escalation through Linux capabilities (CVE-2024-21892)
nodejs: path traversal by monkey-patching buffer internals (CVE-2024-21896)
nodejs: multiple permission model bypasses due to improper path traversal sequence sanitization (CVE-2024-21891)
nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (CVE-2024-21890)
nodejs: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring (CVE-2024-22017)