The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7b52921cae advisory.

    ## 2023-10-13, Version 20.8.1 (Current), @RafaelGSS

    This is a security release.

    ### Notable Changes

    The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

    * [CVE-2023-44487](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-44487): `nghttp2` Security     Release (High)
    * [CVE-2023-45143](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-45143): `undici` Security     Release (High)
    * [CVE-2023-39332](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-39332): Path traversal through     path stored in Uint8Array (High)
    * [CVE-2023-39331](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-39331): Permission model     improperly protects against path traversal (High)
    * [CVE-2023-38552](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-38552):  Integrity checks     according to policies can be circumvented (Medium)
    * [CVE-2023-39333](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-39333): Code injection via     WebAssembly export names (Low)

    More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in [October 2023 Security     Releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2023-security-releases/) blog post.

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    ## 2023-09-28, Version 20.8.0 (Current), @ruyadorno

    ### Notable Changes

    #### Stream performance improvements

    Performance improvements to writable and readable streams, improving the creation and destruction by 15%     and reducing the memory overhead each stream takes in Node.js

    Contributed by Benjamin Gruenbaum in [#49745](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49745) and Raz Luvaton     in [#49834](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49834).

    Performance improvements for readable webstream, improving readable stream async iterator consumption by     140% and improving readable stream `pipeTo` consumption by 60%

    Contributed by Raz Luvaton in [#49662](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49662) and     [#49690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49690).

    #### Rework of memory management in `vm` APIs with the `importModuleDynamically` option

    This rework addressed a series of long-standing memory leaks and use-after-free issues in the following     APIs that support `importModuleDynamically`:

    * `vm.Script`
    * `vm.compileFunction`
    * `vm.SyntheticModule`
    * `vm.SourceTextModule`

    This should enable affected users (in particular Jest users) to upgrade from older versions of Node.js.

    Contributed by Joyee Cheung in [#48510](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48510).

    #### Other notable changes

    * \[[`32d4d29d02`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/32d4d29d02)] - **deps**: add     v8::Object::SetInternalFieldForNodeCore() (Joyee Cheung)     [#49874](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49874)
    * \[[`0e686d096b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0e686d096b)] - **doc**: deprecate `fs.F_OK`,     `fs.R_OK`, `fs.W_OK`, `fs.X_OK` (Livia Medeiros) [#49683](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49683)
    * \[[`a5dd057540`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a5dd057540)] - **doc**: deprecate     `util.toUSVString` (Yagiz Nizipli) [#49725](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49725)
    * \[[`7b6a73172f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7b6a73172f)] - **doc**: deprecate calling     `promisify` on a function that returns a promise (Antoine du Hamel)     [#49647](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49647)
    * \[[`1beefd5f16`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1beefd5f16)] - **esm**: set all hooks as release     candidate (Geoffrey Booth) [#49597](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49597)
    * \[[`b0ce78a75b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b0ce78a75b)] - **module**: fix the leak in     SourceTextModule and ContextifySript (Joyee Cheung) [#48510](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48510)
    * \[[`4e578f8ab1`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4e578f8ab1)] - **module**: fix leak of     vm.SyntheticModule (Joyee Cheung) [#48510](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48510)
    * \[[`69e4218772`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/69e4218772)] - **module**: use symbol in WeakMap     to manage host defined options (Joyee Cheung) [#48510](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48510)
    * \[[`14ece0aa76`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14ece0aa76)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)** **src**: allow     embedders to override NODE\_MODULE\_VERSION (Cheng Zhao)     [#49279](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49279)
    * \[[`9fd67fbff0`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9fd67fbff0)] - **stream**: use bitmap in writable     state (Raz Luvaton) [#49834](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49834)
    * \[[`0ccd4638ac`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0ccd4638ac)] - **stream**: use bitmap in readable     state (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#49745](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49745)
    * \[[`7c5e322346`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7c5e322346)] - **stream**: improve webstream     readable async iterator performance (Raz Luvaton) [#49662](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49662)
    * \[[`80b342cc38`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/80b342cc38)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)**
    **test\_runner**: accept `testOnly` in `run` (Moshe Atlow)     [#49753](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49753)
    * \[[`17a05b141d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/17a05b141d)] - **(SEMVER-MINOR)**
    **test\_runner**: add junit reporter (Moshe Atlow) [#49614](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49614)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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Fedora 39 : nodejs20 (2023-7b52921cae)

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