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SCA: security update for joplin (GHSA-hff8-hjwv-j9q7)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415676

Description

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

 - Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin-desktop has a vulnerability that
 leads to remote code execution (RCE) when a user clicks on an <a> link within untrusted notes. The issue
 arises due to insufficient sanitization of <a> tag attributes introduced by the Mermaid. This
 vulnerability allows the execution of untrusted HTML content within the Electron window, which has full
 access to Node.js APIs, enabling arbitrary shell command execution. (CVE-2024-49362)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hff8-hjwv-j9q7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415676

Version: Revision 1.9

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: 5

Percentile: 94.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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: 11/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49362

cwe: CWE-94