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SCA: security update for npm (GHSA-m5h6-hr3q-22h5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423303

Description

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

 - The CLI in npm before 2.15.1 and 3.x before 3.8.3, as used in Node.js 0.10 before 0.10.44, 0.12 before
 0.12.13, 4 before 4.4.2, and 5 before 5.10.0, includes bearer tokens with arbitrary requests, which allows
 remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information by reading Authorization headers. (CVE-2016-3956)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m5h6-hr3q-22h5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423303

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: 7/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3956

BID: 89856

cwe: CWE-200