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SCA: security update for ckeditor4 (GHSA-6v96-m24v-f58j)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411630

Description

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

 - CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. A theoretical vulnerability has been
 identified in CKEditor 4.22 (and above). In a highly unlikely scenario where an attacker gains control
 over the https://cke4.ckeditor.com domain, they could potentially execute an attack on CKEditor 4
 instances. The issue impacts only editor instances with enabled version notifications. Please note that
 this feature is disabled by default in all CKEditor 4 LTS versions. Therefore, if you use CKEditor 4 LTS,
 it is highly unlikely that you are affected by this vulnerability. If you are unsure, please contact us.
 The fix is available in version 4.25.0-lts. (CVE-2024-43411)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6v96-m24v-f58j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411630

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.46

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-43411

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43411

cwe: CWE-79