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SCA: security update for engine.io (GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416121

Description

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

 - Engine.IO before 4.0.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a POST
 request to the long polling transport. (CVE-2020-36048)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j4f2-536g-r55m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416121

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36048

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36048

cwe: CWE-400