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AlmaLinux 9 : nodejs:22 (ALSA-2026:47058)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 333108

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:47058 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 AlmaLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47058

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-47058.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 333108

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-47058.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 8/6/2026

Updated: 8/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.91

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:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:v8-12.4-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/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

CWE: 1333, 606, 770

RHSA: 2026:47058