RHSA-2020:2625 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs8-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

Description

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: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.17.0). (BZ#1829414)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-brace-expansion: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2017-18077)
• nodejs-chownr: TOCTOU vulnerability in `chownr` function in chownr.js (CVE-2017-18869)
• nodejs-sshpk: ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys in lib/formats/ssh.js (CVE-2018-3737)
• nodejs-deep-extend: Prototype pollution can allow attackers to modify object properties (CVE-2018-3750)
• 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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1448380 - CVE-2017-18077 nodejs-brace-expansion: Regular expression denial of service
• BZ - 1567228 - CVE-2018-3737 nodejs-sshpk: ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys in lib/formats/ssh.js
• BZ - 1578246 - CVE-2018-3750 nodejs-deep-extend: Prototype pollution can allow attackers to modify object properties
• BZ - 1611613 - CVE-2017-18869 nodejs-chownr: TOCTOU vulnerability in `chownr` function in chownr.js
• BZ - 1788301 - CVE-2019-16777 npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite
• BZ - 1788305 - CVE-2019-16775 npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation
• BZ - 1788310 - CVE-2019-16776 npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field
• BZ - 1829414 - rh-nodejs8: One extra rebuild to deliver the last upstream version

CVEs

• CVE-2017-18077
• CVE-2017-18869
• CVE-2018-3737
• CVE-2018-3750
• CVE-2019-16775
• CVE-2019-16776
• CVE-2019-16777

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate