Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for node-jose (GHSA-rvj9-8cvx-3vq9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423040

Description

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

 - node-jose is a JavaScript implementation of the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) for current web
 browsers and node.js-based servers. node-jose earlier than version 0.9.3 is vulnerable to an invalid curve
 attack. This allows an attacker to recover the private secret key when JWE with Key Agreement with
 Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Static (ECDH-ES) is used. (CVE-2017-16007)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvj9-8cvx-3vq9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423040

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16007

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16007

cwe: CWE-200