Security Advisory
1) Reachable assertion
Severity: Medium
CVSSv3: 6.5 [CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C] [PCI]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15604
CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of X509 certificates in X509V3_EXT_print(). A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted client certificate to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
Mitigation
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versions
Node.js: 10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.2.1, 10.3.0, 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.5.0, 10.6.0, 10.7.0, 10.8.0, 10.9, 10.9.0, 10.10.0, 10.11.0, 10.12.0, 10.13.0, 10.14.0, 10.14.1, 10.14.2, 10.15.0, 10.15.1, 10.15.2, 10.15.3, 10.16.0, 10.16.1, 10.16.2, 10.16.3, 10.17.0, 10.18.0, 10.18.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.2.0, 12.3.0, 12.3.1, 12.4.0, 12.5.0, 12.6.0, 12.7.0, 12.8.0, 12.8.1, 12.9.0, 12.9.1, 12.10.0, 12.11.0, 12.11.1, 12.12.0, 12.13.0, 12.13.1, 12.14.0, 12.14.1, 13.0.0, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.2.0, 13.3.0, 13.4.0, 13.5.0, 13.6.0, 13.7.0
CPE
External links
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V13.md#13.8.0https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1156a9e5f8
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware ..
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