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SCA: security update for ws (GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422349

Description

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

 - ws is a "simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for
 node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455". By sending an overly long websocket payload to a `ws` server, it is
 possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier. (CVE-2016-10542)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6663-c963-2gqg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422349

Version: Revision 1.3

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-2016-10542

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: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10542

cwe: CWE-400