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Medium RLSA-2020:4272 4 CVEs

Moderate: nodejs:12 security and bug fix update

Published Oct 19, 2020 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (12.18.4).

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-dot-prop: prototype pollution (CVE-2020-8116)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling due to CR-to-Hyphen conversion (CVE-2020-8201)

* npm: Sensitive information exposure through logs (CVE-2020-15095)

* libuv: buffer overflow in realpath (CVE-2020-8252)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* The nodejs:12/development module is not installable (BZ#1883966)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-nodemon 0:1.18.3-1.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-packaging 0:17-3.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.3
    CVE-2020-8116

    dot-prop Prototype Pollution vulnerability

    Prototype pollution vulnerability in dot-prop npm package versions before 4.2.1 and versions 5.x before 5.1.1 allows an attacker to add arbitrary properties to JavaScript language constructs such as objects.

    js-jquery dot-prop node-dot-prop node-dot-prop Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux npm
  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2020-15095

    Sensitive information exposure through logs in npm cli

    Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.14.6 are vulnerable to an information exposure vulnerability through log files. The CLI supports URLs like "<protocol>://[<user>[:<password>]@]<hostname>[:<port>][:][/]<path>". The password value is not redacted and is print…

    npm cli npm npm Debian Ubuntu npm
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2020-8201

    Node.js < 12.18.4 and < 14.11 can be exploited to perform HTTP desync attacks and deliver malicious payloads to unsuspe…

    Node.js node nodejs nodejs Debian Alpine
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2020-8252

    The implementation of realpath in libuv < 10.22.1, < 12.18.4, and < 14.9.0 used within Node.js incorrectly determined t…

    Node.js node nodejs libuv1 Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856875
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868196
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879311
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879315
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883966