diff --git a/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/Dockerfile
index d28eaff0d87e..cad1673c48e9 100644
--- a/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/node/18/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="18.9.0-debian-11-r3" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="18.9.0-debian-11-r4" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/node" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="node" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     tar -zxf node-18.9.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
     rm -rf node-18.9.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz node-18.9.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
-    rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN mkdir /.npm && chmod g+rwX /.npm
 RUN sed -i 's/^PASS_MAX_DAYS.*/PASS_MAX_DAYS    90/' /etc/login.defs && \
     sed -i 's/^PASS_MIN_DAYS.*/PASS_MIN_DAYS    0/' /etc/login.defs && \
diff --git a/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages b/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
index c9577647443b..77857a1a57f2 100755
--- a/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
+++ b/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/prebuildfs/usr/sbin/install_packages
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-set -e
-set -u
-export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+set -eu
+
 n=0
 max=2
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
 until [ $n -gt $max ]; do
     set +e
     (
@@ -21,4 +22,4 @@ until [ $n -gt $max ]; do
     echo "apt failed, retrying"
     n=$(($n + 1))
 done
-rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
+apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
diff --git a/bitnami/node/README.md b/bitnami/node/README.md
index 3c16ee995d50..703db449c1ae 100644
--- a/bitnami/node/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/node/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Bitnami containers can be used with [Kubeapps](https://kubeapps.dev/) for deploy
 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/).
 
 
-* [`18`, `18-debian-11`, `18.9.0`, `18.9.0-debian-11-r3`, `latest` (18/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`18`, `18-debian-11`, `18.9.0`, `18.9.0-debian-11-r4`, `latest` (18/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node/18/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`16`, `16-debian-11`, `16.17.0`, `16.17.0-debian-11-r12` (16/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node/16/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`14`, `14-debian-11`, `14.20.0`, `14.20.0-debian-11-r25` (14/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/node/14/debian-11/Dockerfile)