RHSA-2026:53298 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for nodejs22 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 due to exponential-time complexity (CVE-2026-13149)
• tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header (CVE-2026-59874)
• tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb (CVE-2026-59873)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2494813 - CVE-2026-13149 brace-expansion: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity
• BZ - 2498116 - CVE-2026-59874 tar: Node-tar: Denial of Service via malformed tar archive header
• BZ - 2498120 - CVE-2026-59873 tar: node-tar: Denial of Service via crafted gzip bomb

CVEs

• CVE-2026-13149
• CVE-2026-59873
• CVE-2026-59874

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important