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SCA: security update for xmlhttprequest-ssl (GHSA-72mh-269x-7mh5)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411746

Description

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

 - The xmlhttprequest-ssl package before 1.6.1 for Node.js disables SSL certificate validation by default,
 because rejectUnauthorized (when the property exists but is undefined) is considered to be false within
 the https.request function of Node.js. In other words, no certificate is ever rejected. (CVE-2021-31597)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72mh-269x-7mh5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 411746

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

Percentile: 57.33

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-31597

cwe: CWE-295