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SCA: security update for is-email (GHSA-j377-2x76-558h)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416083

Description

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

 - A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the Segment is-email package before 1.0.1
 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to provide crafted input to the isEmail(input) function may cause an
 application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2021-36716)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j377-2x76-558h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416083

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36716