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SCA: security update for follow-redirects (GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440331

Description

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

 - follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that
 automatically follows redirects. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect
 (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers
 (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key,
 Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.
 (CVE-2026-40895)

Solution

Update the follow-redirects library and its related packages to version 1.16.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 440331

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/14/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40895

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40895

cwe: CWE-200