Bug 2244415 (CVE-2023-38552)

Summary: CVE-2023-38552 nodejs: integrity checks according to policies can be circumvented
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.
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Bug Depends On: 2244472, 2244485, 2244487, 2244464, 2244473, 2244474, 2244475, 2244477, 2244479, 2244481, 2244483    
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-10-16 12:33:57 UTC
When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.

References:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2023-security-releases

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-10-16 14:57:09 UTC
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2244472]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2244483]


Created nodejs16 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2244474]


Created nodejs18 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2244477]


Created nodejs20 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2244473]


Created nodejs:13/nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2244487]


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

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2244481]


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

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2244485]


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

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2244475]


Created nodejs:18/nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2244479]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-10-18 16:21:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:5849 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5849

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-10-18 23:09:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:5869 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5869

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-14 16:55:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:7205 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7205