RHEL 10 : nodejs22 (RHSA-2026:96094)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 377698

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs22.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:96094 advisory.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime \ for easily building fast, scalable network applications. \ Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that \ makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive \ real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Security Fix(es):

* brace-expansion: brace-expansion: Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion in nested brace patterns (CVE-2026-102278)

* brace-expansion: brace-expansion: Denial of Service via stack exhaustion from crafted brace patterns (CVE-2026-102276)

* undici: undici: Denial of Service via unhandled stream error on excessive content encodings (CVE-2026-109869)

* undici: undici: Denial of Service via TLS renegotiation with mismatched certificate (CVE-2026-87018)

* undici: undici: Certificate validation bypass via dropped TLS options in Agent (CVE-2026-109383)

* undici: undici: Cache poisoning and information disclosure via improper cross-origin redirect caching (CVE-2026-109829)

* nodejs: nodejs: TLS certificate hostname bypass via non-canonical IP hostnames (CVE-2026-106069)

* nodejs: nodejs: dns.resolve truncates hostnames containing a NUL character (CVE-2026-105482)

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 nodejs22 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:96094.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 377698

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-96094.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/9/2026

Updated: 11/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

Percentile: 98.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-109829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2, 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-npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs22, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-102276, CVE-2026-102278, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-106069, CVE-2026-109383, CVE-2026-109829, CVE-2026-109869, CVE-2026-87018

CWE: 158, 248, 295, 297, 346, 617, 770

RHSA: 2026:96094

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