OpenSSL update assessment, and Node.js project plans

Summary

The vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL Security releases of Jun 21 2022 do not affect any active Node.js release lines.

Analysis

Our assessment of the security advisory is:

The

1

c_rehash

script allows command injection (CVE-2022-2068)

Node.js doesn’t use or ship the

script. Therefore, Node.js is not affected

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