openSUSE 16 Security Update : nodejs22 (openSUSE-SU-2026:20236-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299359

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20236-1 advisory.

Update to 22.22.0:

- CVE-2025-55130: file system permissions bypass via crafted symlinks (bsc#1256569).
- CVE-2025-55131: timeout-based race conditions allow for allocations that contain leftover data from previous operations and lead to exposure of in-process secrets (bsc#1256570).
- CVE-2025-55132: a file's access and modification timestamps can be changed via `futimes()` even when the process has only read permissions (bsc#1256571).
- CVE-2025-59465: malformed HTTP/2 HEADERS frame with invalid HPACK data can cause a crash due to an unhandled error (bsc#1256573).
- CVE-2025-59466: uncatchable Maximum call stack size exceeded error when `async_hooks.createHook()` is enabled can lead to crash (bsc#1256574).
- CVE-2026-21637: synchronous exceptions thrown during certain callbacks bypass the standard TLS error handling paths and can cause a denial of service (bsc#1256576).
- CVE-2026-22036: undici: unbounded decompression chain in HTTP responses via Content-Encoding may lead to resource exhaustion (bsc#1256848).

For full changelog, please see https://nodejs.org/en/blog

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 corepack22, nodejs22, nodejs22-devel and / or npm22 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299359

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20236-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/18/2026

Updated: 2/18/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55132

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55130

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:npm22, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:corepack22, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs22, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs22-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55130, CVE-2025-55131, CVE-2025-55132, CVE-2025-59465, CVE-2025-59466, CVE-2026-21637, CVE-2026-22036

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