RHSA-2020:2847 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:12 security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 7, 2020

Updated · October 9, 2026

Topic

An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 (12.18.2).

Security Fix(es):

nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-11080)
nodejs-minimist: prototype pollution allows adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor or proto payload (CVE-2020-7598)
nodejs: TLS session reuse can lead to hostname verification bypass (CVE-2020-8172)
nodejs: memory corruption in napi_get_value_string_* functions (CVE-2020-8174)

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.