RHEL 9 : nodejs:22 (RHSA-2026:62416)

high Nessus Plugin ID 342432

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-2026:62416 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* sqlite: SQLite: Arbitrary code execution via crafted FTS5 full-text search data (CVE-2026-11822)

* sqlite: SQLite: Arbitrary code execution and crash via heap-based buffer overflow in FTS5 (CVE-2026-11824)

* brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion in expand() function (CVE-2026-14257)

* ip-address: ip-address: Server-Side Request Forgery via IPv4-mapped/NAT64 IPv6 address misclassification (CVE-2026-54272)

* nodejs: Node.js: Unauthorized filesystem access due to Permission Model enforcement flaw (CVE-2026-58043)

* brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded intermediate arrays, bypassing the CVE-2026-14257 mitigation (CVE-2026-69152)

* ip-address: ip-address: Inconsistent IP address parsing leads to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and trust-boundary bypass (CVE-2026-69192)

* nodejs: Node.js: Remote memory exhaustion via HTTP/2 retained header blocks (CVE-2026-56846)

* nodejs: Node.js: Heap-use-after-free in HTTP/2 handling can lead to denial of service (CVE-2026-56848)

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-2026:62416.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 342432

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-62416.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2026

Updated: 9/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.23

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-58043

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-11824

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: 9/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11822, CVE-2026-11824, CVE-2026-14257, CVE-2026-54272, CVE-2026-56846, CVE-2026-56848, CVE-2026-58043, CVE-2026-69152, CVE-2026-69192

CWE: 125, 1389, 191, 400, 551, 770, 825, 918

RHSA: 2026:62416

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