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SCA: security update for forwarded (GHSA-mpcf-4gmh-23w8)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423426
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is
vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse.
This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition. (CVE-2017-16118)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 423426
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: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16118
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 7/24/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-16118
BID: 104427
cwe: CWE-400