SB2024082628 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the nodejs:20 module
Published: August 26, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28863)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources while parsing a tar file. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22020)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling non-network imports in data URLs. A remote user can bypass network import restrictions and execute arbitrary code.
3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22018)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass permissions model.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions when experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-read flag is used. A remote user can retrieve stats from files that they do not have explicit read access to.
4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36137)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-write flag is used. A remote user can change file ownership and permissions via fs.fchown and fs.fchmod.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.