Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:22 security update
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Node.js 22 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 addressing three vulnerabilities: insufficient randomness in the undici HTTP client (CVE-2025-22150), worker thread exposure via the diagnostics channel (CVE-2025-23083), and a memory leak caused by GOAWAY HTTP/2 frames (CVE-2025-23085). These issues have been rated with an important security impact. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these vulnerabilities.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This advisory covers three security flaws in Node.js 22 as packaged by Red Hat for RHEL 8. CVE-2025-22150 concerns undici using insufficiently random values, which could affect cryptographic or security operations relying on randomness. CVE-2025-23083 involves exposure of Node.js worker threads through the diagnostics channel, potentially leaking sensitive information. CVE-2025-23085 is a memory leak vulnerability triggered by GOAWAY HTTP/2 frames causing memory consumption outside the heap. Red Hat has released updated packages for multiple architectures to fix these issues.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities could lead to weakened security guarantees due to insufficient randomness, potential exposure of worker thread information, and resource exhaustion via memory leaks. The overall security impact is rated as Important by Red Hat, indicating these issues could affect confidentiality, integrity, or availability if exploited. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Node.js 22 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update RHSA-2025:1611 as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1611) and the update instructions (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). No additional mitigation steps are specified or required beyond applying the official update.
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:22 security update
Description
Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Node.js 22 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 addressing three vulnerabilities: insufficient randomness in the undici HTTP client (CVE-2025-22150), worker thread exposure via the diagnostics channel (CVE-2025-23083), and a memory leak caused by GOAWAY HTTP/2 frames (CVE-2025-23085). These issues have been rated with an important security impact. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these vulnerabilities.
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This advisory covers three security flaws in Node.js 22 as packaged by Red Hat for RHEL 8. CVE-2025-22150 concerns undici using insufficiently random values, which could affect cryptographic or security operations relying on randomness. CVE-2025-23083 involves exposure of Node.js worker threads through the diagnostics channel, potentially leaking sensitive information. CVE-2025-23085 is a memory leak vulnerability triggered by GOAWAY HTTP/2 frames causing memory consumption outside the heap. Red Hat has released updated packages for multiple architectures to fix these issues.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities could lead to weakened security guarantees due to insufficient randomness, potential exposure of worker thread information, and resource exhaustion via memory leaks. The overall security impact is rated as Important by Red Hat, indicating these issues could affect confidentiality, integrity, or availability if exploited. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Node.js 22 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update RHSA-2025:1611 as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1611) and the update instructions (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). No additional mitigation steps are specified or required beyond applying the official update.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:1611
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-23083","CVE-2025-23085"]
Threat ID: 6a419cb527e9c79719abcebc
Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:13 UTC
Last enriched: 08/16/2026, 17:11:06 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:24:55 UTC
Views: 34
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