RockyLinux 9 : nodejs:22 (RLSA-2026:35892)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 325297

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-2026:35892 advisory.

* ip-address: ip-address: Cross-site scripting via improper HTML escaping of untrusted input (CVE-2026-42338)

* undici: undici: Denial of Service due to unbounded memory growth via WebSocket frames (CVE-2026-12151)

* undici: Undici: Information disclosure due to improper cache-control header parsing (CVE-2026-9678)

* undici: Undici: Response queue poisoning on reused keep-alive sockets can lead to incorrect response delivery. (CVE-2026-6733)

* undici: undici: Weakening of cookie SameSite policy due to incorrect parsing of Set-Cookie header (CVE-2026-11525)

* nodejs: Node.js: Denial of Service via unlimited HTTP/2 ORIGIN frames (CVE-2026-48619)

* nodejs: Node.js: Silent authority rebinding due to embedded-nul hostnames in TLS handling (CVE-2026-48930)

* nodejs: Node.js: Unauthorized file metadata modification (CVE-2026-48935)

* nodejs: Node.js WebCrypto: Denial of Service via large input to subtle.encrypt() (CVE-2026-48933)

* nodejs: Node.js: Certification validation bypass in TLS host verification (CVE-2026-48934)

* Node.js: Node.js: Trust-policy bypass due to hostname matching inconsistency (CVE-2026-48928)

* nodejs: Node.js: Information disclosure of proxy credentials via proxy tunnel error handling (CVE-2026-48615)

* nodejs: Node.js: Authentication bypass due to TLS hostname handling and unicode dot separator mismatch (CVE-2026-48618)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* nodejs:22/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Node.js 22 release [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-186622)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 325297

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-35892.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/7/2026

Updated: 7/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

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-2026-48930

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: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42338

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nodejs-packaging, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, 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: 7/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11525, CVE-2026-12151, CVE-2026-42338, CVE-2026-48615, CVE-2026-48618, CVE-2026-48619, CVE-2026-48928, CVE-2026-48930, CVE-2026-48933, CVE-2026-48934, CVE-2026-48935, CVE-2026-6733, CVE-2026-9678

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