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SCA: security update for moment (GHSA-87vv-r9j6-g5qv)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423339

Description

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

 - The duration function in the moment package before 2.11.2 for Node.js allows remote attackers to cause a
 denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string, aka a "regular expression Denial of Service
 (ReDoS)." (CVE-2016-4055)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87vv-r9j6-g5qv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423339

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 6/29/2026

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4055

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4055

BID: 95849

cwe: CWE-400