RHSA-2021:5171 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the nodejs:16 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: nodejs (16.13.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027610)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)
• nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)
• nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469)
• nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807)
• normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502)
• llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959)
• llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1907444 - CVE-2020-7788 nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file
• BZ - 1945459 - CVE-2020-28469 nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service
• BZ - 1964461 - CVE-2021-33502 normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs
• BZ - 2007557 - CVE-2021-3807 nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes
• BZ - 2014057 - CVE-2021-22959 llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers
• BZ - 2014059 - CVE-2021-22960 llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests
• BZ - 2024702 - CVE-2021-3918 nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7788
• CVE-2020-28469
• CVE-2021-3807
• CVE-2021-3918
• CVE-2021-22959
• CVE-2021-22960
• CVE-2021-33502

References

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