diff --git a/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
index f4096c4dc24f..99645e36defc 100644
--- a/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.4.0-debian-11-r3" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.4.0-debian-11-r4" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/node-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="node-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     sha256sum -c node-exporter-1.4.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256 && \
     tar -zxf node-exporter-1.4.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
     rm -rf node-exporter-1.4.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz node-exporter-1.4.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
+RUN apt-get autoremove --purge -y curl && \
+    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN chmod g+rwX /opt/bitnami
 
diff --git a/bitnami/node-exporter/README.md b/bitnami/node-exporter/README.md
index e7fcdb16d727..2f54182f0536 100644
--- a/bitnami/node-exporter/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/node-exporter/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recom
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.4.0`, `1.4.0-debian-11-r3`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.4.0`, `1.4.0-debian-11-r4`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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