SCA: security update for qs (GHSA-f9cm-p3w6-xvr3)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422613

Description

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

- The qs module before 1.0.0 does not have an option or default for specifying object depth and when parsing
a string representing a deeply nested object will block the event loop for long periods of time. An
attacker could leverage this to cause a temporary denial-of-service condition, for example, in a web
application, other requests would not be processed while this blocking is occurring. (CVE-2014-10064)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f9cm-p3w6-xvr3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422613

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-10064

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: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-10064

cwe: CWE-400