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ALSA-2021:5171 Not scored

Moderate: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.13.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027610) Security Fix(es): * nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918) * nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788) * nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469) * nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807) * normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502) * llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959) * llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960) 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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published December 15, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 nodejs
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-devel
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-docs
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-full-i18n
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-nodemon
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-packaging
AlmaLinux:8 npm

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2021:5171

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.13.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027610) Security Fix(es): * nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918) * nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788) * nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469) * nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807) * normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502) * llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959) * llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960) 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.

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05 / REFERENCES

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