Use of Insufficiently Random Values Affecting nodejs16 package, versions <16.20.1-150300.7.24.2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-NODEJS16-5778055
  • published18 Jul 2023
  • disclosed17 Jul 2023

Introduced: 17 Jul 2023

CVE-2023-31124  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 nodejs16 to version 16.20.1-150300.7.24.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs16 package and not the nodejs16 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. When cross-compiling c-ares and using the autotools build system, CARES_RANDOM_FILE will not be set, as seen when cross compiling aarch64 android. This will downgrade to using rand() as a fallback which could allow an attacker to take advantage of the lack of entropy by not using a CSPRNG. This issue was patched in version 1.19.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1