7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.033 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.3%
Node.js reports : HTTP2 ‘unknownProtocol’ cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion (Critical) (CVE-2021-22883) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an ‘unknownProtocol’ are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on the system, then the server is unable to accept new connections and prevent the process also from opening, e.g. a file. If no file descriptor limit is configured, then this lead to an excessive memory usage and cause the system to run out of memory. DNS rebinding in --inspect (CVE-2021-22884) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack when the whitelist includes ‘localhost6’.
When ‘localhost6’ is not present in /etc/hosts, it is just an ordinary domain that is resolved via DNS, i.e., over network. If the attacker controls the victim’s DNS server or can spoof its responses, the DNS rebinding protection can be bypassed by using the ‘localhost6’ domain.
As long as the attacker uses the ‘localhost6’ domain, they can still apply the attack described in CVE-2018-7160. OpenSSL - Integer overflow in CipherUpdate (CVE-2021-23840) This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210216.txt
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Node.js reports : HTTP2 'unknownProtocol' cause Denial of Service by
resource exhaustion (Critical) (CVE-2021-22883) Affected Node.js
versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many
connection attempts with an 'unknownProtocol' are established. This
leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is
configured on the system, then the server is unable to accept new
connections and prevent the process also from opening, e.g. a file. If
no file descriptor limit is configured, then this lead to an excessive
memory usage and cause the system to run out of memory. DNS rebinding
in --inspect (CVE-2021-22884) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable
to a DNS rebinding attack when the whitelist includes 'localhost6'.
When 'localhost6' is not present in /etc/hosts, it is just an ordinary
domain that is resolved via DNS, i.e., over network. If the attacker
controls the victim's DNS server or can spoof its responses, the DNS
rebinding protection can be bypassed by using the 'localhost6' domain.
As long as the attacker uses the 'localhost6' domain, they can still
apply the attack described in CVE-2018-7160. OpenSSL - Integer
overflow in CipherUpdate (CVE-2021-23840) This is a vulnerability in
OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more
about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210216.txt");
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
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script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
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include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"node10<10.24.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"node12<12.21.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"node14<14.16.0")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"node<15.10.0")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.033 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.3%