2022-01-10, Version 17.3.1 (Current)

This is a security release.

Notable changes:

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.
- Versions of Node.js with the fix for this disable the URI SAN type when
checking a certificate against a hostname. This behavior can be
reverted through the `--security-revert` command-line option.
- More details will be available at
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44531

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.
- Versions of Node.js with the fix for this escape SANs containing the
problematic characters in order to prevent the injection. This
behavior can be reverted through the `--security-revert` command-line
option.
- More details will be available at
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44532

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.
- 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.
- More details will be available at
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44533

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 numerical keys of the object prototype.
- Versions of Node.js with the fix for this use a null protoype for the
object these properties are being assigned to.
- More details will be available at
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21824

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/311

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   * [io.js](CHANGELOG_IOJS.md)
   * [Archive](CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md)
 
+<a id="17.3.1"></a>
+
+## 2022-01-10, Version 17.3.1 (Current), @BethGriggs
+
+This is a security release.
+
+### Notable changes
+
+#### 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.
+
+Versions of Node.js with the fix for this disable the URI SAN type when checking a certificate against a hostname. This behavior can be reverted through the `--security-revert` command-line option.
+
+More details will be available at [CVE-2021-44531](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44531) after publication.
+
+#### 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.
+
+Versions of Node.js with the fix for this escape SANs containing the problematic characters in order to prevent the injection. This behavior can be reverted through the `--security-revert` command-line option.
+
+More details will be available at [CVE-2021-44532](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44532) after publication.
+
+#### 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.
+
+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.
+
+More details will be available at [CVE-2021-44533](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44533) after publication.
+
+#### 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 numerical keys of the object prototype.
+
+Versions of Node.js with the fix for this use a null protoype for the object these properties are being assigned to.
+
+More details will be available at [CVE-2022-21824](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21824) after publication.
+
+Thanks to Patrik Oldsberg (rugvip) for reporting this vulnerability.
+
+### Commits
+
+* \[[`2a0515f73c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2a0515f73c)] - **console**: fix prototype pollution via console.table (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#307](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/307)
+* \[[`2e2c45553d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2e2c45553d)] - **crypto,tls**: implement safe x509 GeneralName format (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#300](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/300)
+* \[[`df3141f59b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/df3141f59b)] - **src**: add cve reverts and associated tests (Michael Dawson) [nodejs-private/node-private#300](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/300)
+* \[[`5398548746`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5398548746)] - **src**: remove unused x509 functions (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#300](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/300)
+* \[[`1f7fdff64a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1f7fdff64a)] - **tls**: fix handling of x509 subject and issuer (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#300](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/300)
+* \[[`b11b4cc69d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b11b4cc69d)] - **tls**: drop support for URI alternative names (Tobias Nießen) [nodejs-private/node-private#300](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/300)
+
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 ## 2021-12-17, Version 17.3.0 (Current), @danielleadams