SCA: security update for chrome-launcher (GHSA-gp2j-mg4w-2rh5)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415217

Description

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

- All versions of chrome-launcher allow execution of arbitrary commands, by controlling the $HOME
environment variable in Linux operating systems. (CVE-2020-7645)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gp2j-mg4w-2rh5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415217

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7645

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7645

cwe: CWE-78