SB20240806223 - Amazon Linux AMI update for nodejs

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SB20240806223 - Amazon Linux AMI update for nodejs

Published: August 6, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB20240806223
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper handling of exceptional conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21892)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to the way certain environment variables are handled by Node.js on Linux. A local user can use a specially crafted environment variable to escalate privileges on the system.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22019)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing HTTP requests with chunked encoding. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP request to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References