RHSA-2024:6148 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the nodejs:18 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.

Security Fix(es):

• node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation (CVE-2024-28863)
• nodejs: Bypass network import restriction via data URL (CVE-2024-22020)

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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2293200 - CVE-2024-28863 node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation
• BZ - 2296417 - CVE-2024-22020 nodejs: Bypass network import restriction via data URL

CVEs

• CVE-2024-22020
• CVE-2024-28863

References

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