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SCA: security update for uws (GHSA-hf5h-hh56-3vrg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415663

Description

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

 - uws is a WebSocket server library. By sending a 256mb websocket message to a uws server instance with
 permessage-deflate enabled, there is a possibility used compression will shrink said 256mb down to less
 than 16mb of websocket payload which passes the length check of 16mb payload. This data will then inflate
 up to 256mb and crash the node process by exceeding V8's maximum string size. This affects uws >=0.10.0
 <=0.10.8. (CVE-2016-10544)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hf5h-hh56-3vrg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415663

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 9/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10544

cwe: CWE-400