Important: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 (18). (BZ#2223313, BZ#2234404)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)
• nodejs-semver: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2022-25883)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire() (CVE-2023-32006)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding (CVE-2023-32559)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2216475 - CVE-2022-25883 nodejs-semver: Regular expression denial of service
• BZ - 2223313 - nodejs:18/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 18 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2230948 - CVE-2023-32002 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load
• BZ - 2230955 - CVE-2023-32006 nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire()
• BZ - 2230956 - CVE-2023-32559 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding
• BZ - 2234404 - nodejs:18/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 18 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.2.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-25883
• CVE-2023-32002
• CVE-2023-32006
• CVE-2023-32559

References

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