Resource Exhaustion Affecting nodejs-full-i18n package, versions <1:16.16.0-1.el9_0


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-NODEJSFULLI18N-3380836
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 21 May 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 nodejs-full-i18n to version 1:16.16.0-1.el9_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:6595.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-full-i18n package and not the nodejs-full-i18n package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The normalize-url package before 4.5.1, 5.x before 5.3.1, and 6.x before 6.0.1 for Node.js has a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) issue because it has exponential performance for data: URLs.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high