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RHEL 8 : nodejs:22 (RHSA-2025:4459)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235135

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:22.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:4459 advisory.

 Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

 Security Fix(es):

 * c-ares: c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers() (CVE-2025-31498)

 * SQLite: integer overflow in SQLite (CVE-2025-3277)

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL nodejs:22 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:4459.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2358271

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359553

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78761

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-88883

http://www.nessus.org/u?551ae653

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4459

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235135

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-4459.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2025

Updated: 5/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3277

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31498

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:v8-12.4-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31498, CVE-2025-3277

CWE: 122, 416

RHSA: 2025:4459