Vulnerability · Published Oct 23, 2026 · Assigned by hackerone

CVE-2026-105482

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity improper access control in node from nodejs. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.0)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A flaw in Node.js DNS resolution allows hostnames containing a NUL byte to be silently truncated by the dns.resolve*() functions and dns.reverse(). This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-48930, which only covered dns.lookup() and the net/tls host options. Because the name is passed to c-ares as a C string, resolving attacker.example\0.trusted.example queries attacker.example and returns its records without any error. Applications that validate a hostname, for example against a domain allowlist, and then resolve it with dns.resolve*() can act on records for a different name than the one they validated. This vulnerability affects Node.js 26.x, 24.x, and 22.x.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8nodejs1:24.22.1-1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs1:24.22.1-3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-devel1:24.22.1-1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-devel1:24.22.1-3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-docs1:24.22.1-1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-docs1:24.22.1-3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-full-i18n1:24.22.1-1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-full-i18n1:24.22.1-3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-libs1:24.22.1-1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-libs1:24.22.1-3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-nodemon3.1.14-2.module_el8.10.0+4250+09238ed4ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-nodemon3.1.14-3.module_el9.8.0+292+f4eaf8b2ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-packaging2021.06-6.module_el8.10.0+4086+70facd4aALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-packaging2021.06-6.module_el9.7.0+209+ecf6523eALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8nodejs-packaging-bundler2021.06-6.module_el8.10.0+4086+70facd4aALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9nodejs-packaging-bundler2021.06-6.module_el9.7.0+209+ecf6523eALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8npm1:11.19.1-1.24.22.1.1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9npm1:11.19.1-1.24.22.1.3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
AlmaLinux:8v8-13.6-devel3:13.6.233.17-1.24.22.1.1.module_el8.10.0+4331+0683c9c1ALSA-2026:92376
AlmaLinux:9v8-13.6-devel3:13.6.233.17-1.24.22.1.3.module_el9.8.0+333+788f3075ALSA-2026:92378
Alpine:v3.21nodejs22.23.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-105482
Alpine:v3.22nodejs22.23.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-105482
Alpine:v3.23nodejs24.22.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-105482
Alpine:v3.24nodejs24.22.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-105482
Alpine:v3.24nodejs-current26.12.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2026-105482
Debian:12nodejsno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-105482
Debian:13nodejsno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-105482
Debian:14nodejsno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-105482
Rocky Linux:9nodejs1:24.22.1-3.module+el9.8.0+40401+e24b8c95RLSA-2026:92378
Rocky Linux:8nodejs-nodemon0:3.1.14-2.module+el8.10.0+40277+b1b3f89eRLSA-2026:92376
Rocky Linux:8nodejs-nodemon0:3.1.14-2.module+el8.10.0+40278+50b003a3RLSA-2026:92376
Rocky Linux:9nodejs-nodemon0:3.1.14-3.module+el9.8.0+40281+14cc6568RLSA-2026:92378
Rocky Linux:8nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el8.10.0+40048+6d99f608RLSA-2026:92376
Rocky Linux:8nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el8.10.0+40172+38f6fdd1RLSA-2026:92376
Rocky Linux:8nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el8.10.0+40171+8fa9c325RLSA-2026:92376
Rocky Linux:9nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el9.7.0+40165+d075e3f2RLSA-2026:92378
Rocky Linux:9nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el9.7.0+40052+e32ea525RLSA-2026:92378
Rocky Linux:9nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el9.8.0+40164+8921ab53RLSA-2026:92378
Rocky Linux:9nodejs-packaging0:2021.06-6.module+el9.7.0+40153+4d595597RLSA-2026:92378
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnodejsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-105482
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnodejsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-105482
Ubuntu:26.10nodejsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-105482

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
nodejs node 22.23.3 – through 22.23.324.22.0 – through 24.22.026.12.0 – through 26.12.0

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References