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SCA: security update for request (GHSA-7xfp-9c55-5vqj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421944

Description

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

 - Request is an http client. If a request is made using ```multipart```, and the body type is a
 ```number```, then the specified number of non-zero memory is passed in the body. This affects Request
 >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0. (CVE-2017-16026)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7xfp-9c55-5vqj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421944

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16026

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16026

cwe: CWE-201