ALAS-2024-544

References: CVE-2024-21890  CVE-2024-21891  CVE-2024-21892  CVE-2024-21896  CVE-2024-22017  CVE-2024-22019  CVE-2024-22025  CVE-2024-24758 
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

2024-03-13: CVE-2024-22025 was added to this advisory.

The Node.js Permission Model does not clarify in the documentation that wildcards should be only used as the last character of a file path.
This misleading documentation affects all users using the experimental permission model in active release lines: 20.x and 21.x.
Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the permission model is an experimental feature of Node.js. (CVE-2024-21890)

NOTE: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2024-security-releases/#multiple-permission-model-bypasses-due-to-improper-path-traversal-sequence-sanitization-cve-2024-21891---medium (CVE-2024-21891)

A flaw was found in Node.js. On Linux, Node.js ignores certain environment variables if they have been set by an unprivileged user while the process is running with elevated privileges, with the exception of CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE. Due to a bug in the implementation of this exception, Node.js incorrectly applies this exception even when other capabilities have been set. This may allow unprivileged users to inject code that inherits the processes elevated privileges. (CVE-2024-21892)

NOTE: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2024-security-releases/#path-traversal-by-monkey-patching-buffer-internals-cve-2024-21896---high (CVE-2024-21896)

NOTE: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2024-security-releases/#setuid-does-not-drop-all-privileges-due-to-io_uring-cve-2024-22017---high (CVE-2024-22017)

A flaw was found in Node.js due to a lack of safeguards on chunk extension bytes. The server may read an unbounded number of bytes from a single connection, which can allow an attacker to send a specially crafted HTTP request with chunked encoding, leading to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. (CVE-2024-22019)

NOTE: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.19.1
NOTE: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f31d47e135973746c4f490d5eb635eded8bb3dda (v18.x)
NOTE: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9052ef43dc2d1b0db340591a9bc9e45a25c01d90 (main) (CVE-2024-22025)

Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js. Undici already cleared Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects, but did not clear `Proxy-Authentication` headers. This issue has been patched in versions 5.28.3 and 6.6.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-24758)

Issue Correction:
Run dnf update nodejs20 --releasever 2023.3.20240304 to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:
    nodejs20-libs-debuginfo-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-debuginfo-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-full-i18n-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-libs-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    v8-11.3-devel-11.3.244.8-1.20.11.1.1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-devel-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-npm-10.2.4-1.20.11.1.1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    nodejs20-debugsource-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

noarch:
    nodejs20-docs-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch

src:
    nodejs20-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    nodejs20-libs-debuginfo-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-debuginfo-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-full-i18n-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-devel-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    v8-11.3-devel-11.3.244.8-1.20.11.1.1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-libs-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-npm-10.2.4-1.20.11.1.1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    nodejs20-debugsource-20.11.1-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64