Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:18 security update
Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Security Fix(es): * rh-nodejs14-nodejs: CONTINUATION frames DoS (CVE-2024-27983) 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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2024-27983 is a denial of service vulnerability in the rh-nodejs14-nodejs package caused by improper handling of CONTINUATION frames. This can lead to resource exhaustion and service disruption. Red Hat has released a security update (RHSA-2024:3472) for Red Hat Software Collections on RHEL 7 across x86_64, s390x, and ppc64le architectures to fix this issue. The advisory rates the impact as Important (high severity). No CVSS score is provided in the advisory. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-400, indicating a resource exhaustion type flaw.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition by exhausting resources via specially crafted CONTINUATION frames. This would disrupt the availability of Node.js applications running on affected Red Hat Software Collections environments.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update fixing this vulnerability in the rh-nodejs14-nodejs package for Red Hat Software Collections on RHEL 7. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2024:3472) and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official patch.
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:18 security update
Description
Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Security Fix(es): * rh-nodejs14-nodejs: CONTINUATION frames DoS (CVE-2024-27983) 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.
Affected software
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Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-27983 is a denial of service vulnerability in the rh-nodejs14-nodejs package caused by improper handling of CONTINUATION frames. This can lead to resource exhaustion and service disruption. Red Hat has released a security update (RHSA-2024:3472) for Red Hat Software Collections on RHEL 7 across x86_64, s390x, and ppc64le architectures to fix this issue. The advisory rates the impact as Important (high severity). No CVSS score is provided in the advisory. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-400, indicating a resource exhaustion type flaw.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition by exhausting resources via specially crafted CONTINUATION frames. This would disrupt the availability of Node.js applications running on affected Red Hat Software Collections environments.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update fixing this vulnerability in the rh-nodejs14-nodejs package for Red Hat Software Collections on RHEL 7. Users should apply the update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2024:3472) and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official patch.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:3472
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a3da1f64853345fc18344e4
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:47:34 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:49:11 UTC
Last updated: 07/03/2026, 08:51:19 UTC
Views: 6
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