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SCA: security update for engine.io-client (GHSA-4r4m-hjwj-43p8)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423241

Description

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

 - engine.io-client is the client for engine.io, the implementation of a transport-based cross-browser/cross-
 device bi-directional communication layer for Socket.IO. The vulnerability is related to the way that
 node.js handles the `rejectUnauthorized` setting. If the value is something that evaluates to false,
 certificate verification will be disabled. This is problematic as engine.io-client 1.6.8 and earlier
 passes in an object for settings that includes the rejectUnauthorized property, whether it has been set or
 not. If the value has not been explicitly changed, it will be passed in as `null`, resulting in
 certificate verification being turned off. (CVE-2016-10536)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4r4m-hjwj-43p8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423241

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10536

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10536

cwe: CWE-300