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Node.js -- January 2022 Security Releases

Affected packages
12.0.0 <= node < 12.22.9
14.0.0 <= node < 14.18.3
16.0.0 <= node < 16.13.2
17.0.0 <= node < 17.3.1
node16 < 16.13.2
node14 < 14.18.3

Details

VuXML ID 972ba0e8-8b8a-11ec-b369-6c3be5272acd
Discovery 2022-01-10
Entry 2022-02-12

Node.js reports:

Improper handling of URI Subject Alternative Names (Medium)(CVE-2021-44531)

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.

Certificate Verification Bypass via String Injection (Medium)(CVE-2021-44532)

Node.js converts SANs (Subject Alternative Names) to a string format. It uses this string to check peer certificates against hostnames when validating connections. The string format was subject to an injection vulnerability when name constraints were used within a certificate chain, allowing the bypass of these name constraints.

Incorrect handling of certificate subject and issuer fields (Medium)(CVE-2021-44533)

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.

Prototype pollution via console.table properties (Low)(CVE-2022-21824)

Due to the formatting logic of the console.table() function it was not safe to allow user controlled input to be passed to the properties parameter while simultaneously passing a plain object with at least one property as the first parameter, which could be __proto__. The prototype pollution has very limited control, in that it only allows an empty string to be assigned to numerical keys of the object prototype.

References

CVE Name CVE-2021-44531
CVE Name CVE-2021-44532
CVE Name CVE-2021-44533
CVE Name CVE-2022-21824
URL https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/jan-2022-security-releases/