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SCA: security update for decamelize (GHSA-q5c4-39f5-m68j)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421921

Description

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

 - Decamelize is used to convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase. Decamelize 1.1.0
 through 1.1.1 uses regular expressions to evaluate a string and takes unescaped separator values, which
 can be used to create a denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-16023)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q5c4-39f5-m68j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421921

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 23.18

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-2017-16023

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: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16023

cwe: CWE-400