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Medium RLSA-2021:5171 7 CVEs

Moderate: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Dec 15, 2021 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.13.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027610)

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)

* nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)

* nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469)

* nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807)

* normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502)

* llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959)

* llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs 1:16.13.1-3.module+el8.5.0+721+4c107270
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-nodemon 0:2.0.15-1.module+el8.5.0+721+4c107270
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-packaging 0:25-1.module+el8.6.0+1046+80feca58
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-packaging 0:25-1.module+el8.5.0+702+221f14e6

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907444
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945459
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964461
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007557
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014057
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014059
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024702