SCA: security update for ssri (GHSA-325j-24f4-qv5x)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423261

Description

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

- index.js in the ssri module before 5.2.2 for Node.js is prone to a regular expression denial of service
vulnerability in strict mode functionality via a long base64 hash string. (CVE-2018-7651)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-325j-24f4-qv5x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423261

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 3/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7651

cwe: CWE-400