RockyLinux 8 : nodejs:24 (RLSA-2026:47060)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 330455

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-2026:47060 advisory.

* brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)

* tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)

* tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

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-packaging and / or nodejs-packaging-bundler packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 330455

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-47060.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/28/2026

Updated: 7/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.96

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-2026-59873

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-13149, CVE-2026-59873, CVE-2026-59874

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