Security Bulletin
Summary
This fix upgrades to nodejs 14.21.3.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-23918
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when enable the experimental permissions option with --experimental-policy. By sending a specially-crafted request using process.mainModule.require(), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass Permissions and access non authorized modules.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247698 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-23920
DESCRIPTION: Node.js could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper access control. By sending a specially-crafted request using ICU_DATA environment variable, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to search and potentially load ICU data.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247694 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-24807
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods in the fetch API. By sending a specially-crafted regex input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247695 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-23936
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by a flaw in the fetch API. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP response containing CRLF character sequences, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, session hijacking, HTTP response splitting or HTTP header injection.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247696 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-23919
DESCRIPTION: Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not clear the OpenSSL error stack after operations. By sending specially-crafted cryptographic operations, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247697 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| ICP - IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery | All |
Remediation/Fixes
| Product(s) | Version(s) number and/or range | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Answer Retrieval for Watson Discovery | < 2.11.0 | Download and install v2.11.0 Follow instructions in the downloaded package. |
Workarounds and Mitigations
N/A
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References
Change History
15 Mar 2023: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
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Modified date:
15 March 2023
UID
ibm16963632