Moderate: rh-nodejs12-nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs12-nodejs 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-nodejs12-nodejs (12.22.12). This is the last planned rebase before the collection reaches End of Life.

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)
• 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)
• nodejs: Improper handling of URI Subject Alternative Names (CVE-2021-44531)
• nodejs: Certificate Verification Bypass via String Injection (CVE-2021-44532)
• nodejs: Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer fields (CVE-2021-44533)
• minimist: prototype pollution (CVE-2021-44906)
• 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)
• nodejs: Prototype pollution via console.table properties (CVE-2022-21824)

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 - 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 - 2040839 - CVE-2021-44531 nodejs: Improper handling of URI Subject Alternative Names
• BZ - 2040846 - CVE-2021-44532 nodejs: Certificate Verification Bypass via String Injection
• BZ - 2040856 - CVE-2021-44533 nodejs: Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer fields
• BZ - 2040862 - CVE-2022-21824 nodejs: Prototype pollution via console.table properties
• BZ - 2066009 - CVE-2021-44906 minimist: prototype pollution

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3918
• CVE-2021-22959
• CVE-2021-22960
• CVE-2021-37701
• CVE-2021-37712
• CVE-2021-44531
• CVE-2021-44532
• CVE-2021-44533
• CVE-2021-44906
• CVE-2022-21824

References

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