SCA: security update for MongoDB.Driver (GHSA-7j9m-j397-g4wx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412109

Description

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

- Under very specific circumstances (see Required configuration section below), a privileged user is able to
cause arbitrary code to be executed which may cause further disruption to services. This is specific to
applications written in C#. This affects all MongoDB .NET/C# Driver versions prior to and including
v2.18.0 Following configuration must be true for the vulnerability to be applicable: * Application must
written in C# taking arbitrary data from users and serializing data using _t without any validation AND *
Application must be running on a Windows host using the full .NET Framework, not .NET Core AND *
Application must have domain model class with a property/field explicitly of type System.Object or a
collection of type System.Object (against MongoDB best practice) AND * Malicious attacker must have
unrestricted insert access to target database to add a _t discriminator."Following configuration must be
true for the vulnerability to be applicable (CVE-2022-48282)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j9m-j397-g4wx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412109

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48282

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48282

cwe: CWE-502