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SCA: security update for uap-core (GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422512

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0. A Regular
 Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the
 User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to a value containing a long digit string. (The UAP-Core project
 contains the vulnerability, propagating to all implementations.) (CVE-2018-20164)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422512

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20164

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20164

cwe: CWE-185