RHSA-2022:0041 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon 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-nodejs14-nodejs (14.18.2). (BZ#2031766)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)
• nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807)
• nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (CVE-2021-37701)
• nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite (CVE-2021-37712)
• 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 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 Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1999731 - CVE-2021-37701 nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite
• BZ - 1999739 - CVE-2021-37712 nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite
• 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
• BZ - 2031766 - rh-nodejs14-nodejs: Rebase to LTS version [rhscl-3.8.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3807
• CVE-2021-3918
• CVE-2021-22959
• CVE-2021-22960
• CVE-2021-37701
• CVE-2021-37712

References

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