SCA: security update for re2 (GHSA-j4r3-hg7j-8chg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445771

Description

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

- node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer
whose final bytes form a truncated (incomplete) multi-byte UTF-8 sequence could cause the native binding
to read past the end of the allocated buffer while attempting to decode the final, incomplete code point.
This could result in an out-of-bounds read and potential disclosure of adjacent memory contents. This
issue is fixed in version 1.26.1. (CVE-2026-71498)

Solution

Update the re2 library and its related packages to version 1.26.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 445771

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2026

Updated: 8/7/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-71498

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-71498

cwe: CWE-125

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