Monday, July 8, 2024 Security Releases
The Node.js Project
(Update 04-Jul-2024) Security Release target July 8th
Due to the U.S. National Holiday on July 4th, the Node.js Security Releases will be available on or shortly after Monday, July 8th, 2024.
The release is being postponed to ensure that people have sufficient time to upgrade before the weekend, as releasing patches on a holiday would provide limited time for updates.
(Update 02-Jul-2024) Security Release target July 4th
The Node.js Security Releases will be available on, or shortly after, Thursday, July 4th, 2024.
Summary
The Node.js project will release new versions of the 22.x, 20.x, 18.x releases lines on or shortly after, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 in order to address:
- 1 high severity issues.
- 1 medium severity issues.
- 3 low severity issues.
Node.js fetch will be upgraded to undici v6.19.2 on Node.js 18.x and Node.js 20.x. Node.js 22.x already includes undici v6.19.2.
Impact
The 22.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 1 high severity issues, 1 medium severity issues, 3 low severity issues. The 20.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 1 high severity issues, 1 medium severity issues, 3 low severity issues. The 18.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to 1 high severity issues, 1 medium severity issues.
It's important to note that End-of-Life versions are always affected when a security release occurs. To ensure your system's security, please use an up-to-date version as outlined in our Release Schedule.
Release timing
Releases will be available on, or shortly after, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Contact and future updates
The current Node.js security policy can be found at https://nodejs.org/en/security/. Please follow the process outlined in https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/SECURITY.md if you wish to report a vulnerability in Node.js.
Subscribe to the low-volume announcement-only nodejs-sec mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs-sec to stay up to date on security vulnerabilities and security-related releases of Node.js and the projects maintained in the nodejs GitHub organization.