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SCA: security update for systeminformation (GHSA-2m8v-572m-ff2v)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408983

Description

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

 - The System Information Library for Node.JS (npm package "systeminformation") is an open source collection
 of functions to retrieve detailed hardware, system and OS information. In systeminformation before version
 5.3.1 there is a command injection vulnerability. Problem was fixed in version 5.3.1. As a workaround
 instead of upgrading, be sure to check or sanitize service parameters that are passed to si.inetLatency(),
 si.inetChecksite(), si.services(), si.processLoad() ... do only allow strings, reject any arrays. String
 sanitation works as expected. (CVE-2021-21315)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2m8v-572m-ff2v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408983

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21315

cwe: CWE-78