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SCA: security update for follow-redirects (GHSA-q3jh-wrc6-jgq8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 476381

Description

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

 - follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From
 version 1.16.0 to before version 1.16.1, follow-redirects removes sensitive credential headers
 (Authorization, Proxy-Authorization, Cookie, and any caller-declared sensitiveHeaders) before following a
 redirect that crosses to a different host or downgrades to a less secure protocol. The removal routine
 iterates the caller's headers container with for...in and matches header names against a filter. This
 assumes the headers container is a plain object keyed by header names. Node's underlying http.request,
 which follow-redirects is a drop-in replacement for, also accepts headers as an alternating array of names
 and values. For an array, for...in yields the numeric indices "0", "1", "2" and so on, which never match a
 header-name filter, so nothing is removed. An application that sends array-form headers and follows an
 attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect therefore forwards its Authorization, Cookie, and Proxy-
 Authorization headers verbatim to the attacker-controlled destination, with no error or warning. The
 sensitiveHeaders option added to fix CVE-2026-40895 / GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653 is equally ineffective, because
 it relies on the same helper. This is an unauthenticated confidentiality vulnerability: any remote server
 the victim application contacts can harvest the victim's credential headers by responding with a cross-
 origin redirect. This issue has been patched in version 1.16.1. (CVE-2026-111756)

Solution

Update the follow-redirects library and its related packages to version 1.16.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3jh-wrc6-jgq8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 476381

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/20/2026

Updated: 10/20/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-111756

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111756