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SCA: security update for ecstatic (GHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421885

Description

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

 - A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm
 package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a
 maliciously crafted string. (CVE-2016-10703)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421885

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10703

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10703

BID: 106656

cwe: CWE-400