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SCA: security update for http-live-simulator (GHSA-7c9w-qmrq-ff8r)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423084

Description

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

 - Path traversal vulnerability in http-live-simulator <1.0.7 causes unauthorized access to arbitrary files
 on disk by appending extra slashes after the URL. (CVE-2018-16479)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7c9w-qmrq-ff8r

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423084

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16479

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 2/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16479

cwe: CWE-22