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RockyLinux 8 : nodejs:22 (RLSA-2026:7123)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 305627

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:7123 advisory.

 * brace-expansion: brace-expansion: Denial of Service via unbounded brace range expansion (CVE-2026-25547)

 * minimatch: minimatch: Denial of Service via specially crafted glob patterns (CVE-2026-26996)

 * minimatch: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions (CVE-2026-27904)

 * undici: undici: Denial of Service via unbounded memory consumption during WebSocket permessage-deflate decompression (CVE-2026-1526)

 * undici: Undici: Denial of Service via invalid WebSocket permessage-deflate extension parameter (CVE-2026-2229)

 * undici: Undici: HTTP Request Smuggling and Denial of Service due to duplicate Content-Length headers (CVE-2026-1525)

 * undici: undici: Denial of Service via crafted WebSocket frame with large length (CVE-2026-1528)

 * nghttp2: nghttp2: Denial of Service via malformed HTTP/2 frames after session termination (CVE-2026-27135)

 * Node.js: Node.js: Denial of Service due to crafted HTTP `__proto__` header (CVE-2026-21710)

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-2026:7123

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436942

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441268

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442922

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447142

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447143

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447144

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2447145

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448754

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453151

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 305627

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-7123.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 4/8/2026

Updated: 4/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1525

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25547

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1525, CVE-2026-1526, CVE-2026-1528, CVE-2026-21710, CVE-2026-2229, CVE-2026-25547, CVE-2026-26996, CVE-2026-27135, CVE-2026-27904