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SCA: security update for http-proxy-agent (GHSA-86wf-436m-h424)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412493

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in http-proxy-agent, prior to version 2.1.0. It was discovered http-proxy-agent passes an
 auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization. This could result in a Denial of
 Service through the usage of all available CPU resources and data exposure through an uninitialized memory
 leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the auth parameter. (CVE-2019-10196)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-86wf-436m-h424

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412493

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 1/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10196

cwe: CWE-665