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SCA: security update for body-parser (GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436165

Description

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

 - body-parser 2.2.0 is vulnerable to denial of service due to inefficient handling of URL-encoded bodies
 with very large numbers of parameters. An attacker can send payloads containing thousands of parameters
 within the default 100KB request size limit, causing elevated CPU and memory usage. This can lead to
 service slowdown or partial outages under sustained malicious traffic. This issue is addressed in version
 2.2.1. (CVE-2025-13466)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436165

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 11/25/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2025-13466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13466

cwe: CWE-400