RHSA-2021:0551 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:14 security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 16, 2021
Updated · November 1, 2026
Topic
An update for the nodejs:14 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 (14.15.4).
Security Fix(es):
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nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (CVE-2020-7754)
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nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-7774)
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nodejs-ini: prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)
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nodejs: use-after-free in the TLS implementation (CVE-2020-8265)
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c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS (CVE-2020-8277)
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nodejs-ajv: prototype pollution via crafted JSON schema in ajv.validate function (CVE-2020-15366)
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nodejs: HTTP request smuggling via two copies of a header field in an http request (CVE-2020-8287)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
- yarn install crashes with nodejs:14 on aarch64 (BZ#1916465)