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High ALAS2023-2023-304 3 CVEs

Important: nodejs security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 17, 2023 · Updated Aug 23, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-32559: The use of the deprecated API process.binding() can bypass the policy mechanism by requiring internal modules and eventually take advantage of process.binding('spawn_sync') run arbitrary code, outside of the limits defined in a policy.json file. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy is an experimental feature of Node.js. Impacts This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. CVE-2023-32006: The use of module.constructor.createRequire() can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x. CVE-2023-32002: The use of Module._load() can bypass the policy mechanism and require modules outside of the policy.json definition for a given module. Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js. Impacts: This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 16.x, 18.x and, 20.x.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-debuginfo 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-debugsource 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-devel 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-docs 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-full-i18n 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-libs 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-libs-debuginfo 1:18.12.1-1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 npm 1:8.19.2-1.18.12.1.1.amzn2023.0.10
Amazon Linux · 2023 v8-devel 2:10.2.154.15-1.18.12.1.1.amzn2023.0.10

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-32002.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-32006.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-32559.html