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SCA: security update for bson (GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422775

Description

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

 - The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is
 vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is
 triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.
 (CVE-2018-13863)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422775

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13863

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: 9/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13863