RHEL 9 : nodejs:22 (RHSA-2026:52399)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 333581

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:22.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:52399 advisory.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

Security Fix(es):

* 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)

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

* 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)

* 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)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL nodejs:22 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:52399.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 333581

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-52399.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/10/2026

Updated: 8/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.96

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-48615

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:H/I:N/A:N

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:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:v8-12.4-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12151, CVE-2026-13149, CVE-2026-42338, CVE-2026-48615, CVE-2026-48618, CVE-2026-48933, CVE-2026-59873, CVE-2026-59874

CWE: 1333, 209, 289, 606, 770, 79

RHSA: 2026:52399

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