RHEL 9 : nodejs:24 (RHSA-2026:96226)

high Nessus Plugin ID 377699

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:24.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:96226 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* undici: undici: Denial of Service via unrequested WebSocket subprotocol (CVE-2026-19534)

* 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)

* minimatch: minimatch: Denial of Service via crafted glob pattern expansion (CVE-2026-118764)

* sqlite: sqlite: Denial of service via heap-based buffer overflow in FTS5 (CVE-2026-119373)

* sqlite: sqlite: Arbitrary code execution via crafted session changesets (CVE-2026-119379)

* sqlite: sqlite: Arbitrary code execution via corrupted FTS5 index (CVE-2026-119374)

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:24 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:96226.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 377699

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-96226.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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2026-109383

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

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-2026-119379

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, 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:v8-13.6-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: 11/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-102276, CVE-2026-102278, CVE-2026-109383, CVE-2026-109869, CVE-2026-118764, CVE-2026-119373, CVE-2026-119374, CVE-2026-119379, CVE-2026-19534, CVE-2026-87018

CWE: 248, 295, 476, 606, 617, 770, 787

RHSA: 2026:96226

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