Bug 2040839 (CVE-2021-44531)

Summary: CVE-2021-44531 nodejs: Improper handling of URI Subject Alternative Names
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: abenaiss, amctagga, bdettelb, caswilli, dkuc, fjansen, hhorak, hvyas, jburrell, jorton, jwong, kaycoth, micjohns, mrunge, nodejs-maint, nodejs-sig, pbhattac, rfreiman, sgallagh, spandura, sthirugn, thrcka, vkumar, zsvetlik
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: node 12.22.9, node 14.18.3, node 16.13.2, node 17.3.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A flaw was found in node.js where it accepted a certificate's Subject Alternative Names (SAN) entry, as opposed to what is specified by the HTTPS protocol. This flaw allows an active person-in-the-middle to forge a certificate and impersonate a trusted host.
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Last Closed: 2022-06-06 12:47:00 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 2040841, 2040842, 2040843, 2040844, 2040845, 2042964, 2042965, 2042967, 2042968, 2042969, 2042970, 2046369, 2052252, 2086799, 2086800, 2086801, 2086802, 2087166, 2132705, 2132706, 2150314, 2150315    
Bug Blocks: 2040868    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-14 19:28:17 UTC
Accepting arbitrary Subject Alternative Name (SAN) types, unless a PKI is specifically defined to use a particular SAN type, can result in bypassing name-constrained intermediates. Node.js was accepting URI SAN types, which PKIs are often not defined to use. Additionally, when a protocol allows URI SANs, Node.js did not match the URI correctly.

Versions of Node.js with the fix for this disable the URI SAN type when checking a certificate against a hostname.

Reference:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/jan-2022-security-releases/

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-14 19:30:51 UTC
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2040845]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040841]


Created nodejs:12/nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040842]


Created nodejs:14/nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040843]


Created nodejs:16/nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040844]

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2022-01-20 12:51:16 UTC
Upstream fix :
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/50439b446f1e6bfc91f03d4b070edb5357b16b8b

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-06 09:27:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2022:4914 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4914

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-06-06 12:46:57 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-44531

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2022-10-19 10:10:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2022:7044 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7044

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 11:33:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7830 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7830

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-12-15 16:16:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:9073 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9073

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2023-04-12 14:58:08 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2023:1742 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1742

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2023-06-22 19:51:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHODF-4.13-RHEL-9

Via RHSA-2023:3742 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3742