Moderate: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for the nodejs:14 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 (14.18.2), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027609)

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)
• 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 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 - 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 - 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

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7788
• CVE-2020-28469
• CVE-2021-3807
• CVE-2021-3918
• CVE-2021-22959
• CVE-2021-22960
• CVE-2021-33502
• CVE-2021-37701
• CVE-2021-37712

References

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