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SCA: security update for semver (GHSA-x6fg-f45m-jf5q)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421826

Description

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

 - The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU
 consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."
 (CVE-2015-8855)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x6fg-f45m-jf5q

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421826

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8855

BID: 86957