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SCA: security update for em-http-request (GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417796

Description

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

 - EM-HTTP-Request 1.1.5 uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that allows an attacker to perform
 a man-in-the-middle attack against users of the library. The hostname in a TLS server certificate is not
 verified. (CVE-2020-13482)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417796

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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: 5/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13482

cwe: CWE-295