Tuesday, 1 November, 2022 UTC


Summary

Summary
The Node.js project will release new versions of the 14.x, 16.x, 18.x, 19.x releases lines on or shortly after Thursday, November 3, 2022 in order to address:
  • One medium severity issues.
  • Two high severity issues that affect OpenSSL as per secadv/20221101.txt
These security releases are driven by the OpenSSL security release as announced in OpenSSL November Security Release as well as an additional vulnerability that affects all supported release lines.
Impact
The 19.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one medium severity issue and two high severity issues.
The 18.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one medium severity issue and two high severity issues.
The 16.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one medium severity issue.
The 14.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one medium severity issue.
Release timing
Releases will be available on, or shortly after, Thursday, November 3rd, 2022.
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.
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