The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21236-1 advisory.

    This update for nodejs24 fixes the following issues

    Update to version 24.18.0 (bsc#1269825).

    Security issues fixed:

    - CVE-2026-2581: undici: denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption (bsc#1268480).
    - CVE-2026-6733: undici: response queue poisoning on reused keep-alive sockets can lead to incorrect     response delivery       (bsc#1268479).
    - CVE-2026-9496: pacote: excessive CPU consumption in `addGitSha` when processing a specially crafted     `spec.rawSpec`       value can lead to DoS (bsc#1266318).
    - CVE-2026-9678: undici: information disclosure due to improper `cache-control` header parsing     (bsc#1268478).
    - CVE-2026-9679: undici: HTTP header injection via `Set-Cookie` percent-decoding (bsc#1268477).
    - CVE-2026-11525: undici: weakening of cookie `SameSite` policy due to incorrect parsing of `Set-Cookie`     header       (bsc#1268481).
    - CVE-2026-12151: undici: denial of service due to unbounded memory growth via WebSocket frames     (bsc#1268482).
    - CVE-2026-27135: nghttp2: assertion failure due to missing state validation can lead to DoS     (bsc#1259853).
    - CVE-2026-40170: ngtcp2: qlog `parameters_set` stack buffer overflow (bsc#1262274).
    - CVE-2026-42338: ip-address: cross-site scripting due to improper HTML escaping of untrusted input     (bsc#1268097).
    - CVE-2026-48615: proxy credentials leaked in `ERR_PROXY_TUNNEL` error message (bsc#1268598).
    - CVE-2026-48617: permission model enforcement bypass via `process.report.writeReport()` path     misvalidation       (bsc#1268554).
    - CVE-2026-48618: unicode dot separator handling can lead to TLS wildcard-depth authentication bypass due     to       resolver and verifier hostname normalization mismatch (bsc#1268593).
    - CVE-2026-48619: unbounded memory growth in `node:http2` clients via attacker-controlled `ORIGIN` frames     (bsc#1268618).
    - CVE-2026-48928: uppercase sni context matching can lead to mtls authorization bypass due to case-     sensitive       hostname matching (bsc#1268605).
    - CVE-2026-48930: `embedded-nul` hostnames can lead to silent authority rebinding due to `c-string`     truncation in       resolver bindings (bsc#1268606).
    - CVE-2026-48931: HTTP response queue poisoning via TOCTOU race condition in `http.Agent` (bsc#1268611).
    - CVE-2026-48933: WebCrypto AES integer overflow leads to remote process abort (bsc#1268592).
    - CVE-2026-48934: TLS host identity verification bypass via session reuse with different `servername`     leads to       unauthorized connections (bsc#1268608).
    - CVE-2026-48935: permission model bypass via `FileHandle.utimes()` in the `promises` API (bsc#1268609).
    - CVE-2026-48937: servers keep accepting data even after sending a `GOAWAY` frame (bsc#1268555).

    Other updates and bugfixes:
    - Version 24.18.0:
      - doc: update `blockList` stability status to release candidate
      - fs: support caller-supplied `readFile()` buffers
      - http: close pre-request sockets in `closeIdleConnections`
      - loader: implement package maps
      - net: support `TCP_KEEPINTVL` and `TCP_KEEPCNT` in `setKeepAlive`
      - tls: add `certificateCompression` option
      - vfs: dispatch `node:fs/promises` to mounted VFS instances
      - vfs: add minimal `node:vfs` subsystem
    - For changes in older versions, see https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases.
    - Remove `update-alternatives` from scriptlets if not available.
    - Explicitly `BuildRequire` `update-alternatives` and mark it as being used in post/postun.
    - Add `-fno-lifetime-dse` to `CXXFLAGS` to avoid parallel/test-snapshot-reproducible testsuite failure     with GCC 16.

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.

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