RHSA-2024:1687 — Security Advisory

An update for the nodejs:20 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.

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)