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SCA: security update for superagent (GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422797

Description

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

 - The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server
 replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client
 does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory
 consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must
 control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to. (CVE-2017-16129)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422797

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16129

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 8/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16129