RHSA-2023:2654 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 9, 2023
Updated · October 29, 2026
Topic
An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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 (18.14.2).
Security Fix(es):
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glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
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c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
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http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
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Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
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Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)
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Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
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Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
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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.