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SCA: security update for body-parser (GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418360

Description

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

 - body-parser is Node.js body parsing middleware. body-parser <1.20.3 is vulnerable to denial of service
 when url encoding is enabled. A malicious actor using a specially crafted payload could flood the server
 with a large number of requests, resulting in denial of service. This issue is patched in 1.20.3.
 (CVE-2024-45590)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418360

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45590

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45590

cwe: CWE-405