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SCA: security update for https-proxy-agent (GHSA-8g7p-74h8-hg48)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423295

Description

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

 - https-proxy-agent before 2.1.1 passes auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization,
 resulting in DoS and uninitialized memory leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the
 'auth' parameter (e.g. JSON). (CVE-2018-3739)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8g7p-74h8-hg48

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423295

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3739

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 7/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3739