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Medium RLSA-2023:2654 8 CVEs

Moderate: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Dec 3, 2025 · Updated Dec 3, 2025

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 (18.14.2).

Security Fix(es):

* glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

* c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

* http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

* Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

* Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)

* Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

* Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

* Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

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 · 9 nodejs-packaging 0:2021.06-4.module+el9.7.0+40025+0e0cf6b2
Rocky Linux · 9 nodejs-packaging 0:2021.06-4.module+el9.7.0+40017+f0db1785
Rocky Linux · 9 nodejs-packaging 0:2021.06-4.module+el9.7.0+40018+a011993d
Rocky Linux · 9 nodejs-packaging 0:2021.06-4.module+el9.7.0+40022+9ecc286c

Vulnerabilities 8

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156324
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165824
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168631
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171935
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172170
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172190
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172204
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172217