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AlmaLinux 8 : nodejs:24 (ALSA-2026:98102)

high Nessus Plugin ID 380304

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2026:98102 advisory.

 * 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)
 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98102

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-98102.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 380304

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-98102.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.04

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:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:v8-13.6-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2026

Reference Information

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

CWE: 248, 295, 617, 770, 787

RHSA: 2026:98102