RHSA-2023:4537 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 8, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for the nodejs:16 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 package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.20.1). (BZ#2223678, BZ#2223680, BZ#2223682, BZ#2223684, BZ#2223686, BZ#2223688)

Security Fix(es):

nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism (CVE-2023-30581)
nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (CVE-2023-30588)
nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (CVE-2023-30589)
nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key (CVE-2023-30590)

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.