April 2021 Security Releases

Daniel Bevenius

(Update 6-Apr-2021) Security releases available

Updates are now available for v10,x, v12.x, v14.x and v15.x Node.js release lines for the following issues.

OpenSSL - CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT (High) (CVE-2021-3450)

This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

Impacts:

  • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines

OpenSSL - NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing (High) (CVE-2021-3449)

This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

Impacts:

  • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines

npm upgrade - Update y18n to fix Prototype-Pollution (High) (CVE-2020-7774)

This is a vulnerability in the y18n npm module which may be exploited by prototype pollution. You can read more about it in https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4w7-xm78-47vh

Impacts:

  • All versions of the 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines

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