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Alpine: nodejs: security update to 22.16.0-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436516

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The C++ method SignTraits::DeriveBits() may incorrectly call ThrowException() based on user-supplied
 inputs when executing in a background thread, crashing the Node.js process. Such cryptographic operations
 are commonly applied to untrusted inputs. Thus, this mechanism potentially allows an adversary to remotely
 crash a Node.js runtime. (CVE-2025-23166)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-23166

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436516

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 12/30/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23166