CVE-2026-21713

MEDIUMNVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 5.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: MODERATE) published 2026-03-30. NVD baseline CVSS 5.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2026-17174 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6r7g-3mm3-fhw7 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw in Node.js HMAC verification uses a non-constant-time comparison when validating user-provided signatures, potentially leaking timing information proportional to the number of matching bytes. Under certain threat models where high-resolution timing measurements are possible, this behavior could be exploited as a timing oracle to infer HMAC values. Node.js already provides timing-safe comparison primitives used elsewhere in the codebase, indicating this is an oversight rather than an intentional design decision. This vulnerability affects 20.x, 22.x, 24.x, and 25.x.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity59% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
30th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-07). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 30, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated May 10, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Node.js — Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Security Releases

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/march-2026-security-releases

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatnodejs24-1:24.14.1-2.el10_12026-04-13redhat
redhatnodejs:24-8100020260408131901.6d8804032026-04-13redhat
redhatnodejs:24-9070020260402152654.rhel92026-04-09redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(7 across 7 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 22.22.2-r0: fixed in 22.22.2-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 22.22.2-r0: fixed in 22.22.2-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 24.14.1-r0: fixed in 24.14.1-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs—
  • every version up to 24.14.1-r0: fixed in 24.14.1-r0
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs18.13.0+dfsg1-1 ... 18.20.4+dfsg-1~deb12u1 (21 versions)
  • every version up to 18.20.4+dfsg-1~deb12u2: fixed in 18.20.4+dfsg-1~deb12u2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs20.19.2+dfsg-1, 20.19.2+dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • every version up to 20.19.2+dfsg-1+deb13u2: fixed in 20.19.2+dfsg-1+deb13u2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nodejs20.19.2+dfsg-1 ... 22.22.1+dfsg+~cs22.19.15-1 (25 versions)
  • every version up to 22.22.2+dfsg+~cs22.19.15-1: fixed in 22.22.2+dfsg+~cs22.19.15-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 273 rows on record for this CVE, as 99 entries (1 repeat merged).

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 173 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  7. 2026-11-07 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6r7g-3mm3-fhw7 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  1. 2026-10-23 05:43 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-10-23 05:43 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-23 05:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6r7g-3mm3-fhw7 · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  66. 2026-08-19 13:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6r7g-3mm3-fhw7 · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-21713?
CVE-2026-21713 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 30, 2026. A flaw in Node.js HMAC verification uses a non-constant-time comparison when validating user-provided signatures, potentially leaking timing information proportional to the number of matching bytes. Under certain threat models where high-resolution timing measurements are possible, this behavior…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-21713 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-21713 was published on March 30, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-21713 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-21713 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (30th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-21713?
CVE-2026-21713 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-21713?
A fix for CVE-2026-21713 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-21713 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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