Bug 2040856 (CVE-2021-44533) - CVE-2021-44533 nodejs: Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer fields
Summary: CVE-2021-44533 nodejs: Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer f...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-44533
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2040857 2040858 2040859 2040860 2040861 2042984 2042985 2042986 2042987 2042988 2042989 2046354 2046369 2052252 2086809 2086810 2086811 2086812 2087168 2132709 2132710 2150318 2150319
Blocks: 2040868
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Reported: 2022-01-14 19:44 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-06-22 19:51 UTC (History)
26 users (show)

Fixed In Version: node 12.22.9, node 14.18.3, node 16.13.2, node 17.3.1
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A flaw was found in node.js, where it did not properly handle multi-value Relative Distinguished Names. This flaw allows a specially crafted x509 certificate to produce a false multi-value Relative Distinguished Name and to inject arbitrary data in node.js libraries.
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Last Closed: 2022-06-06 13:16:58 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:4914 0 None None None 2022-06-06 09:27:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7044 0 None None None 2022-10-19 10:11:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7830 0 None None None 2022-11-08 11:33:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:9073 0 None None None 2022-12-15 16:16:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:1742 0 None None None 2023-04-12 14:58:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:3742 0 None None None 2023-06-22 19:51:38 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-14 19:44:04 UTC 
Node.js did not handle multi-value Relative Distinguished Names correctly. Attackers could craft certificate subjects containing a single-value Relative Distinguished Name that would be interpreted as a multi-value Relative Distinguished Name, for example, in order to inject a Common Name that would allow bypassing the certificate subject verification.

Affected versions of Node.js do not accept multi-value Relative Distinguished Names and are thus not vulnerable to such attacks themselves. However, third-party code that uses node's ambiguous presentation of certificate subjects may be vulnerable.

Reference:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/jan-2022-security-releases/
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-14 19:44:40 UTC 
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2040861]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040857]


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

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040858]


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

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040859]


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

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2040860]
Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2022-01-20 12:55:03 UTC 
Upstream fix :
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a336444c7fb9fd1d0055481d84cdd57d7d569879
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-06 09:27:13 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 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-06-06 13:16:54 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-2021-44533
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-10-19 10:10:58 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 10 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 11:33:15 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 11 errata-xmlrpc 2022-12-15 16:16:40 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 12 errata-xmlrpc 2023-04-12 14:58:12 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 13 errata-xmlrpc 2023-06-22 19:51:36 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
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