RHSA-2023:1582MediumCVSS 8.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
April 4, 2023
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (8)

CVE-2023-23936 →CVE-2023-24807 →CVE-2021-35065 →CVE-2022-4904 →CVE-2022-25881 →CVE-2023-23918 →CVE-2023-23919 →CVE-2023-23920 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-35065 — glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service CVE-2022-4904 — c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check CVE-2022-25881 — http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability CVE-2023-23918 — Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule CVE-2023-23919 — Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library CVE-2023-23920 — Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable CVE-2023-23936 — Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers CVE-2023-24807 — Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API

🎯 Affected products31

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.src (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.x86_64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debuginfo-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debuginfo-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debuginfo-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debuginfo-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.x86_64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debugsource-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debugsource-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debugsource-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-debugsource-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.x86_64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-devel-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-devel-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-devel-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-devel-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.x86_64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-docs-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.noarch (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-full-i18n-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-full-i18n-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-full-i18n-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-full-i18n-1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.x86_64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.noarch (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.src (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-packaging-0:25-1.module+el8.5.0+10992+fac5fe06.noarch (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • nodejs-packaging-0:25-1.module+el8.5.0+10992+fac5fe06.src (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • npm-1:8.19.3-1.16.19.1.1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.aarch64 (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • npm-1:8.19.3-1.16.19.1.1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.ppc64le (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • npm-1:8.19.3-1.16.19.1.1.module+el8.7.0+18373+704f5cef.s390x (nodejs:16) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Turn off the --experimental-policy in your Node.js deployment.

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