SCA: security update for json (GHSA-3c6g-pvg8-gqw2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409450

Description

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

- This affects the package json before 10.0.0. It is possible to inject arbritary commands using the
parseLookup function. (CVE-2020-7712)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c6g-pvg8-gqw2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409450

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7712

cwe: CWE-78