Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-7099 - Data Processing Errors vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
high complexity
nodejs
suse
CWE-19
nessus

Summary

The tls.checkServerIdentity function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 does not properly handle wildcards in name fields of X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nodejs
97
OS
Suse
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • XML Nested Payloads
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. By nesting XML data and causing this data to be continuously self-referential, an attacker can cause the XML parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In most cases this type of an attack will result in a denial of service due to an application becoming unstable, freezing, or crash. However it may be possible to cause a crash resulting in arbitrary code execution, leading to a jump from the data plane to the control plane [R.230.1].
  • XML Oversized Payloads
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. By supplying oversized payloads in input vectors that will be processed by the XML parser, an attacker can cause the XML parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization, and potentially cause execution of arbitrary code. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In many cases this type of an attack will result in a denial of service due to an application becoming unstable, freezing, or crash. However it is possible to cause a crash resulting in arbitrary code execution, leading to a jump from the data plane to the control plane [R.231.1].
  • XML Client-Side Attack
    Client applications such as web browsers that process HTML data often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. These adverse effects may include the parser crashing, consuming too much of a resource, executing too slowly, executing code supplied by an attacker, allowing usage of unintended system functionality, etc. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In some cases it may be possible to jump from the data plane to the control plane via bad data being passed to an XML parser. [R.484.1]
  • XML Parser Attack
    Applications often need to transform data in and out of the XML format by using an XML parser. It may be possible for an attacker to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the XML parser when it is being processed. These adverse effects may include the parser crashing, consuming too much of a resource, executing too slowly, executing code supplied by an attacker, allowing usage of unintended system functionality, etc. An attacker's goal is to leverage parser failure to his or her advantage. In some cases it may be possible to jump from the data plane to the control plane via bad data being passed to an XML parser. [R.99.1]

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-43FF70C6B1.NASL
    descriptionhttps://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.7.0/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-11-15
    plugin id94798
    published2016-11-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94798
    titleFedora 25 : 1:nodejs (2016-43ff70c6b1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2016-43ff70c6b1.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(94798);
      script_version("2.3");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7099");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-43ff70c6b1");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 25 : 1:nodejs (2016-43ff70c6b1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.7.0/
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
    Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
    possible without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-43ff70c6b1"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected 1:nodejs package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:nodejs");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/10/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/09");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^25([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 25", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC25", reference:"nodejs-6.7.0-107.fc25", epoch:"1")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : rpm_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "1:nodejs");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-2470-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs and security issues : - Nodejs embedded openssl version update + upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052) + remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules - http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data. This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here. (CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201) - tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652) - buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with Buffer.concat() Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-24
    modified2019-01-02
    plugin id119982
    published2019-01-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119982
    titleSUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs4 (SUSE-SU-2016:2470-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2470-1.
    # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(119982);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/23");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2178", "CVE-2016-2183", "CVE-2016-5325", "CVE-2016-6304", "CVE-2016-6306", "CVE-2016-7052", "CVE-2016-7099");
    
      script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs4 (SUSE-SU-2016:2470-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing
    bugs and security issues :
    
      - Nodejs embedded openssl version update
    
      + upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183,
        CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052)
    
      + remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules
    
    - http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data.
    This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP
    responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here.
      (CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201)
    
      - tls: properly validate wildcard certificates
        (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652)
    
      - buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects
        created with Buffer.concat()
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001652"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985201"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2178/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5325/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6304/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6306/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7052/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7099/"
      );
      # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20162470-1/
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?20d40afc"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
    
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12:zypper in -t patch
    SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2016-1439=1
    
    To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-2183");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-debuginfo");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-debugsource");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-devel");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/06/20");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/06");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/02");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
    if (cpu >!< "x86_64") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);
    
    
    sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
    if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
    if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP0", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nodejs4-4.6.0-8.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nodejs4-debuginfo-4.6.0-8.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nodejs4-debugsource-4.6.0-8.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nodejs4-devel-4.6.0-8.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"npm4-4.6.0-8.1")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nodejs4");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-1172.NASL
    descriptionThis update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs and security issues : - Nodejs embedded openssl version update + upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052) + remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules - http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data. This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here. (CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201) - tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652) - buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with Buffer.concat()
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-10-12
    plugin id94002
    published2016-10-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94002
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : nodejs (openSUSE-2016-1172)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-861B8C46B7.NASL
    descriptionhttps://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.6.0/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-10-12
    plugin id93977
    published2016-10-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93977
    titleFedora 24 : 1:nodejs (2016-861b8c46b7)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2017:0002
rpms
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-0:2.7.0-2.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-0:2.7.0-2.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-debuginfo-0:2.7.0-2.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-debuginfo-0:2.7.0-2.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-devel-0:2.7.0-2.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-http-parser-devel-0:2.7.0-2.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-0:4.6.2-4.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-0:4.6.2-4.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debuginfo-0:4.6.2-4.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debuginfo-0:4.6.2-4.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel-0:4.6.2-4.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel-0:4.6.2-4.el7
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-docs-0:4.6.2-4.el6
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-docs-0:4.6.2-4.el7