All versions of Node.js 9.x and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node process which provides an http server supporting TLS server to crash. This can be accomplished by sending duplicate/unexpected messages during the handshake. This vulnerability has been addressed by updating the TLS implementation.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-7162 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-nodejs6-nodejs | Not affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-nodejs8-nodejs | Not affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-nodejs4-nodejs | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 | logging-kibana | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 | logging-auth-proxy | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | rhoar-nodejs | Not affected |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 | nodejs | Not affected |
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