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SCA: security update for ip-address (GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 476866

Description

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

 - ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and
 application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6
 constructor. (CVE-2026-111997)

Solution

Update the ip-address library and its related packages to version 10.7.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 476866

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-111997

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111997