RHSA-2023:2655 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 9, 2023

Updated · October 29, 2026

Topic

An update for nodejs and nodejs-nodemon 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 (16.19.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

Security Fix(es):

  • 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: 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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:2655 — Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux