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Node.js Security Releases
Node.js security updates address multiple vulnerabilities across the 20.x, 22.x, 24.x, and 25.x release lines. The announcement lists fixes for denial of service, permission model bypasses, crashes, and other issues.
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Security context
Updates are now available for the 25.x, 24.x, 22.x, 20.x Node.js release lines for the following issues.
Node.js
Node.js v20.20.2
- Affected versions
- 20.x
The 20.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 2 high severity issues, 4 medium severity issues, 2 low severity issues.
22.xThe 22.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 2 high severity issues, 4 medium severity issues, 2 low severity issues.
24.xThe 24.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 2 high severity issues, 4 medium severity issues, 2 low severity issues.
25.xThe 25.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 2 high severity issues, 5 medium severity issues, 2 low severity issues.
- Fixed versions
- Node.js v20.20.2
Node.js v20.20.2
Node.js v22.22.2Node.js v22.22.2
Node.js v24.14.1Node.js v24.14.1
Node.js v25.8.2Node.js v25.8.2
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this extraction
- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-21637
Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-21637: loadSNI() in _tls_wrap.js lacks try/catch leading to Remote DoS (CVE-2026-21637)
CVE-2026-21710Denial of Service via __proto__ header name in req.headersDistinct (Uncaught TypeError crashes Node.js process) (CVE-2026-21710)
CVE-2026-21711Node.js Permission Model bypass: UDS server bind/listen works without --allow-net (CVE-2026-21711)
CVE-2026-21712Assertion error in node_url.cc via malformed URL format leads to Node.js crash (CVE-2026-21712)
CVE-2026-21713Timing side-channel in HMAC verification via memcmp() in crypto_hmac.cc leads to potential MAC forgery (CVE-2026-21713)
CVE-2026-21714Memory leak in Node.js HTTP/2 server via WINDOW_UPDATE on stream 0 leads to resource exhaustion (CVE-2026-21714)
CVE-2026-21717HashDoS in V8 (CVE-2026-21717)
CVE-2026-21715Permission Model Bypass in realpathSync.native Allows File Existence Disclosure (CVE-2026-21715)
CVE-2026-21716CVE-2024-36137 Patch Bypass - FileHandle.chmod/chown (CVE-2026-21716)
Publisher severity
high
2 high severity issues.
- Event
- #19342 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date