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SCA: security update for snyk, snyk-go-plugin (GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415872

Description

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

 - Snyk CLI before 1.996.0 allows arbitrary command execution, affecting Snyk IDE plugins and the snyk npm
 package. Exploitation could follow from the common practice of viewing untrusted files in the Visual
 Studio Code editor, for example. The original demonstration was with shell metacharacters in the
 vendor.json ignore field, affecting snyk-go-plugin before 1.19.1. This affects, for example, the Snyk
 TeamCity plugin (which does not update automatically) before 20220930.142957. (CVE-2022-40764)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415872

Version: Revision 1.8

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40764

cwe: CWE-78