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SCA: security update for undici (GHSA-3xpg-4rpp-hhhm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 448492

Description

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

 - undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding
 header. While the number of content-encoding layers is capped, the total decompressed output size is
 unbounded and there is no configuration option to limit it. A malicious or faulty upstream can therefore
 return a small compressed payload, a compression bomb, that expands to hundreds of megabytes or more in
 client memory, an asymmetric resource consumption that can exhaust memory and crash the process. This
 affects undici versions from 7.15.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to
 undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2. (CVE-2026-84890)

Solution

Update the undici library and its related packages to version 7.29.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xpg-4rpp-hhhm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 448492

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/29/2026

Updated: 9/29/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84890

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-84890

cwe: CWE-770