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SCA: security update for uglify-js (GHSA-c9f4-xj24-8jqx)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422990

Description

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

 - The uglify-js package before 2.6.0 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU
 consumption) via crafted input in a parse call, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."
 (CVE-2015-8858)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c9f4-xj24-8jqx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422990

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: 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-2015-8858

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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8858

BID: 96409