Rocky Linux 9 [CIQ] Security Update: nodejs / nodejs-debuginfo / nodejs-debugsource / nodejs-docs / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2022_6963)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 358938

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2022_6963 advisory.

* nodejs: weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen (CVE-2022-35255)

* nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ 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 based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2022_6963.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6963

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2130517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2130518

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2022:6963

http://www.nessus.org/u?1cdec22f

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ed5fade

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 358938

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_9_crlsa-2022_6963.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-35255

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/OS/extended-third-party, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-35255, CVE-2022-35256