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SCA: security update for braces (GHSA-grv7-fg5c-xmjg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421394

Description

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

 - The NPM package `braces`, versions prior to 3.0.3, fails to limit the number of characters it can handle,
 which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as
 input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without
 freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is reached, and the program
 will crash. (CVE-2024-4068)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-grv7-fg5c-xmjg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421394

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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-2024-4068

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: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-4068