RHSA-2020:0579 — Security Advisory

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (10.19.0).

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605)

• nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string (CVE-2019-15604)

• nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed (CVE-2019-15606)

• npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation (CVE-2019-16775)

• npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field (CVE-2019-16776)

• npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite (CVE-2019-16777)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.