SCA: security update for faye (GHSA-qpg4-4w7w-2mq5)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422459

Description

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

- Faye (NPM, RubyGem) versions greater than 0.5.0 and before 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5, has the potential for
authentication bypass in the extension system. The vulnerability allows any client to bypass checks put in
place by server-side extensions, by appending extra segments to the message channel. It is patched in
versions 1.0.4, 1.1.3 and 1.2.5. (CVE-2020-11020)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qpg4-4w7w-2mq5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422459

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 4/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11020

cwe: CWE-287