SCA: security update for basic-auth-connect (GHSA-7p89-p6hx-q4fw)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412164

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- basic-auth-connect is Connect's Basic Auth middleware in its own module. basic-auth-connect < 1.1.0 uses a
timing-unsafe equality comparison that can leak timing information. This issue has been fixed in basic-
auth-connect 1.1.0. (CVE-2024-47178)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7p89-p6hx-q4fw

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412164

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-47178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-47178

cwe: CWE-208