RockyLinux 9 : nodejs:20 (RLSA-2025:8468)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243086

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:8468 advisory.

* nodejs: Remote Crash via SignTraits::DeriveBits() in Node.js (CVE-2025-23166)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 affected nodejs-nodemon, nodejs-packaging and / or nodejs-packaging-bundler packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:8468

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367162

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367163

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2367167

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243086

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-8468.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/30/2025

Updated: 7/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23165, CVE-2025-23166, CVE-2025-23167